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Adrián Suar

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He is an Argentine actor and producer. He is the founder and president of Pol-Ka Producciones, an Argentine producer of television, theatrical and cinematographic fiction, in partnership with Grupo Clarín and Artear. In addition, he is the programming manager of the Canal 13 network. Thanks to his long acting career in movies, series and plays, he has won multiple awards such as two Martín Fierro Awards (2014 and 2017), two Tato Awards (both in 2013) and two Estrella de Mar Awards (both in 2015).
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Dixie Locke Emmons

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Dixie Locke Emmons (August 29, 1938 - December 19, 2023) She was Elvis Presley's first girlfriend. Elvis and Dixie were together from January 1954 to May 1956 around Dixie’s high school graduation. They met in Memphis at the First Assembly of God Church and their first dates took me place at the Rainbow Rollerdome Skating Ring. Dixie was born in the south and raised in Memphis, therefore Elvis and Dixie shared a lot of the same southern values, beliefs, traditions and struggles. Elvis attended Dixie’s Southside High School prom on May 6, 1955. Dixie met and was around Elvis’ mother Gladys Presley, and she was in Elvis’ life when he recorded “Thats Alright,” at Sun Records on July 5, 1954. January 24, 1954: Elvis and Dixie Locke were at the same place at the same time. They had not officially met yet. Dixie saw Elvis and at that moment she made plans with a friend to go roller-skating on Saturday night, making sure that Elvis overheard her conversation. February 16, 1954: Elvis brought his girlfriend Dixie Locke home to meet his parents Vernon and Gladys. Elvis and Dixie had barely known each other for two weeks. Dixie’s 2021 memoir is titled “Unlocked: Memoirs of Elvis's First Girlfriend.” There are sweet and innocent stories in the book, and the book gives great insight into who Elvis was during that time period and Elvis early days of touring.
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Joan Crawford

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Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1906 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She started her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway. Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Initially frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, Crawford launched a publicity campaign and built an image as a nationally known flapper by the end of the 1920s. By the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. Crawford became one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her films began losing money. By the end of the 1930s, she was labeled "box office poison". After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company, through her marriage to company president Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forcibly retired in 1973. She continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performances became fewer; after the release of the horror film Trog in 1970, Crawford retired from the screen. Following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were published, Crawford withdrew from public life. She became more and more reclusive until her death in 1977.
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Aziz Dadas

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Aziz Dadas is a Moroccan actor who was born in Casablanca. His beginnings were accompanied by comedian Said Naciri, where he worked with him in a series of works such as Al-Rubib, Al-Awni. He played with the Wolves, the Hook, and then continued to appear in the successful Moroccan series Hour in Hell, First channel. However, his reputation when he participated in the Moroccan comedy film led the way to Kabul. He also appeared in a series of two steel in Clez in 2017. From Wikipedia (ar), the free encyclopedia
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Kamini Zantoko

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Kamini Zantoko is a Black French musician and screenwriter. Kamini's father—Seyolo Zantoko—and his family moved from Zaire to Marly-Gomont, France in 1975. They had difficulty assimilating as the first Black people in town. Kamini grew up there, and by the summer of 2006, was working part-time as a nurse. Seyolo died sometime prior to 2012. Aspiring to make hip hop music, in 2006 he wrote about Marly-Gomont ("Marly-Gomont"). In his music video, made in late June on a budget of €100 (equivalent to €125 in 2022), he raps about farming and games with his friends and fellow villagers. On 30 August, Kamini uploaded the video and cold-emailed promotions to record companies; instead, a t-shirt retailer shared the link online, and by the end of the day, "Marly-Gomont" was a hit. Off the merits of his amateur viral video, Kamini signed with RCA Records on 2 November to publish "Marly-Gomont" and two more albums. In 2012, Kamini wrote and narrated the autobiographical film The African Doctor (French: Bienvenue à Marly-Gomont, lit. 'Welcome to Marly-Gomont') to pay tribute to his father. It was released in 2016, directed by Julien Rambaldi. Source: Article "Kamini (rapper)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Alexander Morel

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Alexander Morel is a French actor and model based in Seoul, South Korea. Known for his charismatic on-screen presence, he gained international recognition for his role in the hit Netflix series XO, Kitty (2023).With a background in international modeling, Morel transitioned into acting, successfully navigating the global entertainment industry. Fluent in multiple languages, he continues to expand his career by participating in diverse television, film, and commercial projects across Asia and Europe.
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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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Gretchen German

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Gretchen German is a Canadian-born American actress with a prolific career in television and film, spanning over three decades. She is best remembered by Seinfeld fans as Donna in the classic episode "The Phone Message," where she played Jerry’s girlfriend whose fondness for a specific pair of pants (and their commercials) caused a comedic rift. Within the Star Trek franchise, she delivered a memorable performance as Rebecca Sullivan, the wife of Michael Eddington, in the Deep Space Nine episode "Blaze of Glory." Her extensive television resume includes guest-starring roles on a wide array of iconic series, such as Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, Coach, Star Trek: Voyager, Home Improvement, and more recently, Modern Family. In addition to her television work, German appeared in feature films like the 1991 comedy The Marrying Man and the thriller Double Obsession. A veteran of the Los Angeles acting community, she has been married to fellow actor James DiStefano since 1995.
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Kanabek Baiseitov

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He was taught literacy by a mullah and, at the age of 15, became a teacher at a rural school for adult literacy. He worked as secretary of the revolutionary committee, head of the volost committee, and chief of the district police department. In 1925, he entered the Kazakh Pedagogical Technical School. Even during his student years, he was recognized as a talented amateur actor: in 1926, he played the lead role in the play "Arkalyk Batyr" by Zh. Shanina. In 1927, he organized the Workers' Youth Theater, where he became the chief director. From 1929, he was an actor at the Kazakh Drama Theater (now the M. O. Auezov Kazakh State Academic Drama Theater), which, in 1933, relocated from Kyzylorda to Almaty due to the transfer of the capital. In 1934, he participated in the establishment of the Kazakh Musical Theater (now the Abai Kazakh State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet) in Almaty with the production of the musical comedy "Ayman-Sholpan" by M. Auezov and I. Kotsyk, where Kanabek played the role of Arystan. He also performed on the opera stage, creating unique images of Khan Arystan, Targyn, the brave warrior Tolgen from the Jagalbaili clan, and others. In the following years, he played leading roles in the operas of Evgeny Brusilovsky, including Kyz-Zhibek (1934), Zhalbyr (1935), Er Targyn (1936), but his peak performance was the role of Abai in the opera of the same name by Akhmet Zhubanov and Latif Khamidi (1944). In this opera, Bayseitov, demonstrating refined theatrical technique, conveyed the image of the great Abai through deep empathy for the character and drama. For his performance in the lead role, Bayseitov was awarded the State Prize of the Kazakh SSR.
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Nancy Nevinson

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Nancy Nevinson (26 July 1918 – 25 January 2012) was an India-born English actress. Nevinson was born in Chittagong, East Bengal, British India. Nevison worked on stage, in film and on television. She also dubbed voices for both young and old. She appeared in the films Foxhole in Cairo (1960), Light in the Piazza (1962), Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962), Ring of Spies (1964), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), For the Love of Ada (1972), Symptoms (1974), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), S.O.S. Titanic (1979), Le Pétomane (1979), Raise the Titanic (1980), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), and Mrs Dalloway (1997). In 2001, she moved to Wokingham, to a retirement home funded by the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund especially for film- and TV-personalities. Nevinson died there on 25 January 2012, aged 93. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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