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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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Shanti Roney
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Shanti Grau Roney (born November 24, 1970) is a Swedish actor. While his film credits include nearly twenty movies, most of these have been limited to a domestic or Scandinavian release. One notable exception is Lukas Moodysson's film Together (2000) which gathered acclaim at film festivals worldwide.
In television, he had a prominent role in the popular series Tusenbröder while also featuring in the Danish series The Eagle which won an International Emmy Award in 2005.
Shanti Roney is brother to Nunu and Marimba Roney.
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Julianne Nicholson
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Julianne Nicholson (born July 1, 1971) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles in the films August: Osage County (2013) and Blonde (2022), as well as the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2006–2009), Masters of Sex (2013–2014), Eyewitness (2016), and Mare of Easttown (2021), the lattermost of which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.
Nicholson's other notable credits include Tully (2000), Ally McBeal (2001–2002), Kinsey (2004), Conviction (2006), Boardwalk Empire (2011–2013), Black Mass (2015), I, Tonya (2017), Togo (2019), and The Outsider (2020).
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Vincent van der Voort
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Vincent Van Der Voort (born 18 December 1975) is a Dutch professional darts player on the PDC circuit. As of the 2012 PDC World Darts Championship, his nickname is the "Dutch Destroyer", although he used to go by "Grease Lightning". He is best known for his quick throwing style, which is how he got his temporary nickname "The Fastest Player in the World". He reached the final of the 2007 UK Open, which helped him become a well known face in the world of darts.
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Gemma Chan
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Gemma Chan (born 29 November 1982) is an English actress. A Worcester College, Oxford graduate, Chan began acting in the late 2000s, making her film debut in 2009. She rose to attention with her leading role in the Channel 4 science fiction series Humans (2015–2018). She gained prominence with her starring roles in Crazy Rich Asians and as Elizabeth Hardwick in Mary Queen of Scots (both 2018).
She next starred in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain Marvel (2019) and Eternals (2021), portraying Minn-Erva and Sersi, respectively. She also had a voice role in the Disney animated film Raya and the Last Dragon (2021). She appeared in Olivia Wilde's psychological thriller Don't Worry Darling (2022) and Gareth Edwards' science fiction film The Creator (2023). Offscreen, Chan has been labelled a fashion icon.
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Chloe Carroll
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Chloe Carroll is a U.K. trained actress and producer residing is Los Angeles, California. She has been featured in multiple award-winning films, both in the United States and abroad. Chloe was chosen as a 2017 Shudder Labs fellow when her pitch for The Honeymoon Phase feature film was selected as a top five finalist in Project Greenlight and Shudder TV's Real Fear Horror Contest. Following the script's development at Shudder Labs, Chloe starred as Eve in The Honeymoon Phase - released by Dark Sky Films in 2020.
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Mio Tanaka
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Mio Tanaka (田中 みお, Tanaka Mio, born November 27, 1968) is a Japanese former model and actress. She was born in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo.
In September 1982, while still a teenager, she made her debut as a nude model under the stage name Shōjo M (少女 M) in the exclusive photo album "Romance Part 2". In June 1983, she appeared in the video "Shōjo M 13-sai", which became a big hit and raised her popularity. Catapulted by this success, she featured in numerous adult magazines, becoming a major star and appearing on the cover on several occasions. In 1984, she starred in the film "Scrap: A Love Story", where she also sang the theme song and earned her the nomination for Best Newcomer Award at the Hochi Film Awards. After that, she changed her name to Mio Tanaka and was active as an actress and singer, participating under that name in some series and films until the 1990s.
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Arda Ozum
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Arda is an actor born in Istanbul, Turkey in 2 January 2009 and currently studies acting at Pendleton. Originally a stage actor. He is a very active person who exercises a lot and plays football in a highly competitive level on the side of acting. He was involved in school musicals and college season shows biggest role being Garry in noises off in March 2026. Apart from all the theatre that he’s been involved in. He made his first on screen appearance in a short film called Friction where he played Steve (August 2026). It was also submitted to the indie film festival in 2026. He is mainly a comedic actor however he can do other things such as drama. He is always open to opportunities and collaborations.
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Robert Badinter
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Robert Badinter (born 30 March 1928) is a French lawyer, politician and author who enacted the abolition of the death penalty in France in 1981, while serving as Minister of Justice under François Mitterrand. He has also served in high-level appointed positions with national and international bodies working for justice and the rule of law.
Robert Badinter was born 30 March 1928 in Paris to Simon Badinter and Charlotte Rosenberg. His Bessarabian Jewish family had immigrated to France in 1921 to escape pogroms. During World War II, after the Nazi occupation of Paris, his family sought refuge in Lyon. His father was captured in the 1943 Rue Sainte-Catherine Roundup and deported with other Jews to the Sobibor extermination camp, where he died shortly thereafter.
Badinter graduated in law from Paris Law Faculty of the University of Paris. He then went to the United States to continue his studies at Columbia University in New York City where he got his MA. He continued his studies again at the Sorbonne until 1954. In 1965, Badinter was appointed as a professor at University of Sorbonne. He continued as an Emeritus professor until 1996.
Badinter started his career in Paris in 1951, as a lawyer in a joint work with Henri Torrès. In 1965, along with Jean-Denis Bredin, he founded the law firm Badinter, Bredin et partenaires, (now Bredin Prat) where he practiced law until 1981.
Badinter's activism against the death penalty began after Roger Bontems's execution on 28 November 1972. Along with Claude Buffet, Bontems had taken a prison guard and a nurse hostage during the 1971 revolt in Clairvaux Prison. While the police were storming the building, Buffet slit the hostages' throats. Badinter served as defense counsel for Bontems. Although it was established during the trial that Buffet alone was the murderer, the jury sentenced both men to death. Badinter was outraged by unfair impositions of the death penalty and, after witnessing the executions, further dedicated himself to the abolition of the death penalty.
In this context, he agreed to defend Patrick Henry. In January 1976, 8-year-old Philipe Bertrand was kidnapped. Henry was soon picked up as a suspect, but released because of a lack of proof. He gave interviews on television, saying that those who kidnapped and killed children deserved death. A few days later, he was again arrested, and shown Bertrand's corpse hidden in a blanket under his bed. Badinter and Robert Bocquillon defended Henry, making the case not about Henry's guilt, but against applying the death penalty. Henry was sentenced to life imprisonment and paroled in 2001. ...
Source: Article "Robert Badinter" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Mohamed Saad
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Mohamed Saad is an Egyptian actor. His artistic career began with a small role in the series The Nile Still Flows, followed by several small roles in several films, including The Road to Eilat, in addition to the series Who Doesn't Love Fatma?. But his real breakthrough was through the character of El Lembi, which he presented for the first time in the film The Headmaster by director Sherif Arafa, then he moved with it and performed his first absolute starring in the movie E Lembi (2002). Saad's roles rolled after that, most of which depended on an eccentric character that he creates himself with strange names like Okal, Boha, Tatah, Puskas, and many others. Saad starred in the movies Mohamed Hussein, The Treasure, and My Life Is Poor.
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