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Sara Montpetit
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Sara Montpetit (born 2001 or 2002) is a Canadian actress and environmental activist from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the 2021 film Maria Chapdelaine, for which she won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year at the 24th Quebec Cinema Awards.
In 2021 she was cast in Charlotte Le Bon's film Falcon Lake, which premiered at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. In 2022 she was cast in Ariane Louis-Seize's Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person.
She received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting Performance in a Film at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, for her performance in Falcon Lake.
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Edward Ricourt
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Edward Ricourt is an American screenwriter and television producer. He began his career through Marvel Studios' Writing Program, which encouraged him to write a script for Luke Cage, as it was of high interest to the studio. Despite no Luke Cage project being made, Ricourt contributed uncredited script revisions to Thor (2011). However, Ricourt gained significant recognition in theatrical filmmaking as a co-writer of the screenplay and story for the heist thriller Now You See Me (2013), which led to further involvement in the franchise.
In television, Ricourt served as a writer and executive story editor on Wayward Pines (2015), contributing to the show’s second season. That same year, he wrote for the Marvel television series Jessica Jones (2015) and worked as a consulting producer.
Ricourt continued this trajectory as a writer and producer on Netflix’s superhero family drama Raising Dion (2019), where he wrote teleplays and served as a producer and later supervising producer across multiple episodes from 2019 to 2022. He was nominated at the Children’s & Family Emmy Awards for Outstanding Children’s or Family Viewing Series for Raising Dion (2019), alongside fellow producers and creative leads.
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Georgiana Young
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Georgiana Young was born on September 30, 1923 in Los Angeles, California, USA as Georgiana Belzer. She was an actress, known for The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939), Border Incident (1949) and No, No, Nanette (1940). She was married to Ricardo Montalban. She died on November 13, 2007 in Los Angeles.
Billed as Georgiana Young, she spent three years under contract to David O. Selznick and was screen-tested for the role of Suellen, Scarlet O'Hara's younger sister, in Gone with the Wind (1939). She lost the part to Evelyn Keyes because, even at the young age of 14, she stood taller than Vivien Leigh. Had a career as a professional model until she retired for marriage to Ricardo Montalban, whom she met through her sister Sally Blane and her director/husband Norman Foster. It seems Montalban was being directed in a Mexican film by Foster and happened to catch Georgiana in her only movie and was smitten. Another story, according to Loretta Young's authorized biography, "Forever Young", by Joan Wester Anderson, states that her first saw her on a magazine cover, as well as in the aforementioned movie, in his native Mexico, and vowed he would marry no one else. He reluctantly went out on a blind date with her sometime later, and was pleasantly surprised to find she was his dream girl.
Had four children with Ricardo Montalban. Sons: Victor Montalban, Mark Montalban (b. 1947); Daughters: Laura Montalban (clothing designer, b. 1949) and Anita Montalban (b. 1952).
Half-sister of actresses Loretta Young, Sally Blane, and Polly Ann Young.
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Hassan Hosny
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Hassan Hosny was born in the Al Qal’aa neighborhood of Cairo, his father was a construction contractor. Housny’s mother passed away when he was only six years old and he was educated at the Radwaniyeh Elementary school. Hosny participated in theater productions at his school and received several awards for his efforts. Thereafter he took part in theatrical works whilst in the army and joined the “Al Keim” theater
He was known for El Nazer, El basha telmiz and Zaky Chan. Widely regarded as a veteran of Egyptian cinema, his acting career spanned over 50 years and included performances in almost 500 films, television programs, and theatre plays
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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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S.Z. Sakall
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Szőke Szakáll, known as S.Z. Sakall, was a Hungarian film character actor. He was in many films including In the Good Old Summertime, Lullaby of Broadway, Christmas in Connecticut and Casablanca in which he played Carl, the head waiter.
Chubby-jowled Sakall played numerous supporting roles in Hollywood musicals and comedies in the 1940s and 1950s. His rotund cuteness earned Sakall the nickname "Cuddles," and he was often billed as S.Z. "Cuddles" Sakall in his later films, though he was never happy with the name. He was famous for using the phrase "everything is hunky dunky."
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Leni Lan
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Leni Lan Yan, also known by her stage name Crazybarby, has developed her career in Hong Kong as an actress,a pop singer and a model. Born in Shanghai, she moved to Hong Kong at age 18 and took her stage name Crazybarby as a composition of her legal given name Crazy and her family given nickname "Barby".
Leni Lan graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and Acting Department of the Shanghai Theatre Academy. She was once Jackie Chan's disciple, targeting international markets as a rising artist under Hong Kong's JCE Entertainment Ltd. EMP.
In 2005, directed by Stanley Kwan's romance "Everlasting Regret" which Leni Lan starred and the official debut showbiz. In 2006, Leni Lan with Warner Bros. Pictures, starring entire Russian romance "Butterfly Kiss" which shattered box office records of "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" to won annual domestic movie box office champion Russian actress title and get the Russian Film Festival Rookie of the Year Award nominations, which has also been the industry in Europe and America concern; The same year, Leni Lan signing JCE Movies Hong Kong and moved to Hong Kong. 2011, Leni Lan starring in 3D film "Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy" and won the Hong Kong box office champion annual local film with a box office record of HK$ 41 million. Leni Lan's personal virtue plays the heroine Tie Yuxiang won high popularity. In 2012, Leni Lan starred in Hunan Satellite TV costume drama "Sui and Tang hero" which had the number one rating." In 2013, Leni Lan starring thriller "Ecstasy Room Escape" nominated for Hollywood Chinese American Film Festival Golden Angel Award; In 2014, Leni Lan starring comedy directed by Eve Jin, "The Way of Surprises."
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Tayc
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Julien Franck Bouadjie Monono Kamgang (born 2 May 1996), better known as Tayc, is a French singer. Prior to the release of his triple album titled Nyxia (2019), he released two mixtapes and a number of singles. His second album called Fleur froide (2020) hit the charts which launched his international career. Tayc's latest release is called Fleur froide - Second état: la cristallisation (2021) accounts for various new singles as well as previous one from Fleur Froide.
Born in Marseille to Cameroonian parents, Bouadjie launched his musical career in 2012 after relocating to Paris. He studied theatre and dance before moving to song and writing. His first release was a10-track mixtape, Alchemy on 30 May 2017 followed by a second mixtape H.E.L.I.O.S on 27 July 2018.
Signing with the label H24 founded by Barack Adama of Sexion D'assaut, he worked on his debut studio album. In February 2019, Tayc released debut album NYXIA which reissued two more times with, the Tome II on 21 June 2019 Tome III on 13 December 2019 all under the title Nyxia. Tome II particularly concentrated on his Cameroonian roots. He featured songs from his triple album with a big concert in Trianon de Paris on 19 October 2019.
Source: Article "Tayc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Charlotte Comer
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Born in Cheshire, England, moved to Manchester with her parents when she was two years old. As a child she attended ballet school and then the Manchester Youth Dance Theatre. As a teenager started her career in the world of fashion. At seventeen she moved to London, and signed contract with Model One agency. After few years, she began professional drama training at The Drama Centre in London. Two months after graduating, she was chosen to the leading role of Rebecca in The Dark Knight (2000) television series.
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David C. Stone
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David Stone, played significant roles both in radical US film-making of the 1960s and in Britain's golden age of arthouse cinemas in the 1970s. In 1974, David and his wife, Barbara, acquired the former Classic cinema, at Notting Hill Gate, West London, which they transformed and renamed the Gate. They opened their own distribution company, Cinegate, whose first acquisition was three films by the young German director RW Fassbinder: The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971); The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972); and Fear Eats the Soul (1974). The first Fassbinder films to be shown in Britain, these brought the Gate instant critical and box-office success at its opening in September that year. The Gate often enjoyed success with films others had passed over, including La Cage Aux Folles (1978), and Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979). Derek Jarman's Sebastiane (1976), with Latin dialogue and subtitles, had queues around the block for six weeks. They brought over the young bodybuilder star of Pumping Iron (1977), Schwarzenegger, who posed with David for the cover of Time Out, and stated, accurately, that he was going to be "bigger than Stallone". There were occasional run-ins with the censors, notably with the Japanese film In the Realm of the Senses (1976). For this, the Gate was temporarily turned into a club, and the Stones manned the box office in case of sudden police intervention. In 1978 they opened the Gate 2 in Brunswick Square and in 1981 Gate Camden in the beautifully restored art deco Camden Odeon. Their Victorian Gothic house in Phillimore Place became a regular Saturday night at-home for international film artists, who might include Bertolucci, Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Richard Eyre, Wallace Shawn, Robert Kramer, Agnès Varda or Anouk Aimée. Through the brothers Jonas and Adolfas Mekas, the focal figures of New American Cinema, the Stones met and befriended many young avant-garde directors and organised a programme of their films for Spoleto. These proved a revelation to the Italian film-makers, including Visconti, Antonioni and Pasolini, who flocked to see them. David produced Adolfas Mekas's first film, Hallelujah the Hills (1963), and Jonas Mekas's record of the Living Theatre stage production of The Brig (1964), an unsparing picture of life shot surreptitiously in a US Marines jail. It took the prize for best documentary feature at the Venice festival. David's strength as producer was that no one could ever say no to him. He produced three quickly-made features by Joe Sarno, a pioneer of sexploitation films and today a cult figure for academia; and Robert Kramer's Ice (1970), a key work on radical action of the period. Later he also produced Kramer's Milestones and Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal. A more personal undertaking was his friend Jerome Hill's autobiographical Film Portrait. The Stones passed from production to direction when they were invited by the Cuban film organisation ICAIC to direct a documentary, Compañeras y Compañeros (1970). David subsequently helped organise the Venceremos brigades - parties of young American enthusiasts who went on working trips to Cuba. The FBI's files on the Stones were growing. Their phones were tapped and, conscious of police surveillance, they chose to move to London in 1971.
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