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Andy Park
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Andy Park is the Director of Visual Development at Marvel Studios.
Park has been a prolific artist in the entertainment industry for well over two decades. In the first part of his career, he made a name for himself as a comic book artist, illustrating the top-selling comic book titles Tomb Raider, Excalibur, Weapon X, and Uncanny X-Men, working for companies like Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, and DC Comics.
In the past half of his career, Andy has expanded his artistic repertoire as an art director and concept artist/visual development artist working in the video game, television, and film industries. He was one of the leading concept artists at Sony Computer Entertainment of America on the award-winning God of War video game franchise (God of War 2, God of War 3, God of War: Chains of Olympus, and God of War: Ascension). In 2010, Andy joined Marvel Studios' newly created Visual Development Department to help create the look and feel of the stories and characters of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He has worked on every single Marvel Studios film since 2010: Captain America: The First Avenger, Thor, The Avengers, Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Guardians of the Galaxy, Avengers: The Age of Ultron, Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, Dr. Strange, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, Captain Marvel, and Avengers: Endgame. In 2015, Andy became the Director of Visual Development, leading the department and team of artists on several movies and projects, including Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Thor: Ragnarok, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Captain Marvel, Black Widow, WandaVision, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Thor: Love and Thunder.
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Hubert Védrine
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Hubert Védrine (born 31 July 1947) is a French Socialist politician. He is an advisor at Moelis & Company.
Following a history degree and graduating from both Sciences Po and ENA, Védrine had toyed with the idea of entering journalism but, on the advice of the historian and family friend Jean Lacouture, instead took a post at the culture ministry.
Védrine was one of the longest-serving aides to a French President and worked closely with President François Mitterrand from 1981 to 1995. Védrine served first as Mitterrand's diplomatic advisor (the French equivalent of the National Security Advisor) from 1981 to 1988, then as Mitterrand's spokesperson from 1988 to 1991, and finally as Secretary-General of the French presidency (the equivalent of the White House Chief of Staff) from 1991 to 1995.
Védrine then served as Foreign Minister of France from 1997 to 2002 in the government of Lionel Jospin.
After the re-election of Jacques Chirac in May 2002, Védrine was replaced by Dominique de Villepin. All three men were characterised by their strong opposition to unilateral action by the United States in Iraq.
Védrine popularized the neologism hyperpower to describe what he saw as the historically-unparalleled influence and might that were held by the United States at the turn of the century.
In 2003, Védrine founded Hubert Vedrine Conseil, a consulting firm.
In 2005, he was appointed by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, a member of the High Council for the Alliance of Civilizations, an initiative that seeks to galvanize international action against extremism through intercultural and interreligious dialogue and cooperation.
He took part in 2007 on the committee preparing the Paris Conference on the Environment to lay the foundations for a future United Nations Environment Organization.
Védrine is the author of more than 19 books, two of them having been translated in English by Philipp Gordon: France in an age of globalization, co-authored with Dominique Moisi (publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2001) and History strikes back: how states, nations, and conflicts are shaping the twenty-first century (publisher: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), co-authored with Adrien Abecassis and Mohamed Bouabdallah.
Around the 2017 elections, news media reported that later President Emmanuel Macron sought regularly the advice of Védrine on foreign policy issues. In 2020, he was appointed by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to join a group of experts to support his work in a reflection process to further strengthen NATO's political dimension.
Source: Article "Hubert Védrine" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Carolina Barret
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The beautiful actress Carolina Barret (October 20, 1916 - October 13, 2009) was an actress of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema as a supporting character with an extensive career and designated as an honorary member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
In addition to dedicating her life to Mexican cinema, she participated in several U.S. productions. In his last years he made some telenovelas.
ARIEL AWARDS. - 1947 Actress Canaima (Winner). - 1956 Supporting actress Espaldas mojadas (Winner).
- 1974 Female co-actress Calzonzín inspector (Nominated).
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Mary Kostakidis
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Mary Kostakidis (born 1954) is the former weeknight SBS World News Australia presenter.
Mary Kostakidis was the first woman appointed to present a national prime time news bulletin in Australia.
She was member of the management team that set up and developed SBS Television in 1980 and went on to present its flagship World News for 20 years, resigning in 2007.
Her board and committee appointments during nearly 3 decades at SBS and subsequently reflect a strong commitment to social justice and interest in the arts.
She is currently a member of the Fred Hollows Foundation Board, the Sydney Theatre Board, the National Library of Australia Council, the ResMed Foundation Board, Chair of the Sydney Peace Foundation and a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors(NSW).
The Sydney Peace Foundation is a University of Sydney Foundation and its major Partner in Peace is the City of Sydney. Annually it awards Australia's only international prize for peace, the Sydney Peace Prize. Past recipients include Muhammad Yunus, Xanana Gusmao, Mary Robinson, Hanan Ashrawi, Arundhati Roy, Hans Blix, Irene Khan and Patrick Dodson.
In 2009 Kostakidis served on the National Human Rights Consultation Committee chaired by Frank Brennan. The Committee inquired into the adequacy of the protection and promotion of human rights in Australia, holding consultations in metropolitan, rural and remote areas across the country and receiving over 35,000 written submissions. They recommended a raft of measures, the most contentious of which was a Human Rights Act. Human rights education was the measure that had the greatest support of those that took part in the consultation, but the overwhemling majority supported human rights legislation. The four member Committee also included Mick Palmer and Tammy Williams.
From 1997 till 2003 she served on the Advertising Standards Board; in 1993 she was appointed by then Prime Minister Paul Keating to Republican Advisory Committee chaired by Malcolm Turbull; in the early nineties she also served on the Council for the Order of Australia and in 1992 was a founding member of the James Joyce Foundation Board along with Ed Campion and Don Anderson. She has also been an active member of the Kazantzaki society.
Kostakidis has also served as an Ambassador for Beyond Blue and was also a member of the Drug and Alcohol Council, the Breast Cancer Council Advisory Committee and the Constitutional Centenary Foundation.
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Lumi Pollack
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Lumi Pollack is an actress with Japanese, Colombian, and Jewish lineage. In 2020, she first appeared as Amelia in the feature film "The Fallout" at 11 years old, a role that was widely recognized by the broader public. Since then, she has been cast in other film, television, and theater productions.
In 2023, Lumi starred in the independent film "One Big Happy Family," due for release in 2024. She also appeared in "Autumn and the Black Jaguar," directed by Gilles De Maistre and produced by Studio Canal, which involved months of filming with jaguars in Mexico. The film was released in Europe in February 2024 and will be released in North America later in the year.
Lumi also created the voice of Westyn, a kind witch, in the animated series "Dee & Friends in Oz," which premiered on Netflix in February 2024. Additionally, she guest-starred on Disney's "Sydney to the Max" in 2021. Lumi is also an accomplished singer and dancer, as well as a multi-instrumentalist who plays piano and guitar. Off duty, she enjoys hiking, biking, swimming, and spending time with her dogs.
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Robert Anthony Fish
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Robert Anthony Fish is an American professional wrestler. He is currently signed to WWE, where he competes in its developmental territory, NXT, and he is currently one-half of the NXT Tag Team Champions with Kyle O'Reilly.
Fish is best known for his appearances with Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2013 to 2017, where he wrestled as one-half of the tag team reDRagon and held the ROH World Tag Team Championship three times and the ROH World Television Championship once. He is also known for his appearances in Japan for Pro Wrestling Noah and for New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW), where he held the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship twice.
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Ninja
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Watkin Tudor Jones (born 26 September 1974), currently known by his stage name Ninja, is a South African rapper, record producer, performance artist and satirist. Previously, he has recorded under a guise of different names, Max Normal and MC Totally Rad being some of the most prominent.
Watkin Tudor Jones was a part of South African hip-hop scene for many years, fronting such acts as The Original Evergreens, MaxNormal.TV and The Constructus Corporation. He is known for adopting different stage personas. He currently fronts the group Die Antwoord under the name Ninja.
Jones has released several albums under different guises (including the Sibot-produced The Fantastic Kill and Markus Wormstorm-produced promo-only EP "Emmanuel Rothchild - My Favourite Songs" and "Markus Wormstorm Is Not Gay"), and expanded into graphic art, stuffed animal making, and other aspects of his creativity. He has a child with Yolandi Visser, who is also a frequent collaborator.
Although he now lives in Cape Town, Jones comes from Johannesburg where he attended Parktown Boys' High School, graduating in 1993.
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Alejandra Márquez Abella
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Born in San Luis Potosí, Mexico in 1982, she studied filmmaking at the Centre d’Estudis Cinematogràfics de Catalunya in Barcelona. Her debut feature film, Semana Santa, and her second film, The Good Girls, both premiered at Toronto, the latter going on to screen at several festivals around the world and being nominated for 14 Mexican Academy of Film Awards. She has been working for television for more than a decade, including directing two episodes of the Narcos: Mexico series. El norte sobre el vacío is her third feature-length film.
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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 October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Christine Bravo
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Christine Bravo (born 13 May 1956) is a French television presenter, journalist, columnist and author.
Christine Bravo was born in Paris, her father Antonio Bravo was a Spanish mason from Toledo. At the age of 18, she left her family to live in Paris. She met one year earlier Jean-Paul Sartre, while creating the newspaper Libération, in which she collaborates with the philosopher. After graduating in history at the Paris Diderot University, she passed the contest of normal school and became a teacher from 1979 to 1982. In 1980, she lived for one year in Tijuana, Mexico. After coming back to France, she published with an editor of Flammarion her first autobiographical novel Avenida B.
In 1983, she participated at a contest organized by Le Matin de Paris. The theme for the contestants was to write a letter about their vacation. The letter of Christine Bravo received the first prize and was published in the daily newspaper. Jean-Dominique Bauby, the chief editor of the culture section, engaged her as a journalist, where she stayed until the end of publication of the newspaper.
Christine Bravo became later a columnist for Elle and also collaborated for Le Journal du dimanche, L'Événement du jeudi, France Soir, Paris Match and Cosmopolitan. In 1988, she began her career in television and started collaborating with Frédéric Mitterrand in his program Permission de minuit. Christophe Dechavanne decides to entrust her the notepad of his program Ciel, mon mardi!, but she left the program. Bernard Rapp proposes her to host the section Bonheur in his program L'Assiette anglaise.
She started presenting on 24 January 1990 on channel FR3 her first program Mille Bravo about culture and modern art, broadcast on the third part of the evening on Friday. In April 1991, the program was broadcast the first Sunday of every month. In June 1991, Christine Bravo left FR3 to join Antenne 2 where she hosts Merci et encore bravo, broadcast on the third part of the evening on Thursday.
In September 1992, she hosts Frou-Frou until June 1994. She then presents Chérie, j'ai un truc à te dire in 1994 and J'ai un problème in 1995. That same year, she left the audiovisual and after appearing in an advertisement for a laundry powder, she took a sabbatical year.
1n 1998, she started again her career with Union libre on France 2 every two weeks. In 2002, she adapted the program to the French counties with Douce France every Saturday. After a year, the program was not broadcast anymore.
Christine Bravo has two children, Mathieu (born in 1978) and Clara (born in 1992).
Source: Article "Christine Bravo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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