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Takeshi Kitano
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Takeshi Kitano (北野 武, Kitano Takeshi, born January 18, 1947), also known in Japan as Beat Takeshi (ビートたけし, Bīto Takeshi), is a Japanese comedian, actor, and filmmaker. While he is known primarily as a comedian and TV host in his native Japan, he is better known abroad for his work as a filmmaker and actor as well as TV host.
Kitano rose to prominence in the 1970s as one half of the comedy duo Two Beat, before going solo and becoming one of the three biggest comedians in the country. After several small acting roles, he made his directorial debut with 1989's Violent Cop and garnered international acclaim for Sonatine (1993). He was not widely accepted as an accomplished director in Japan until Hana-bi won the Golden Lion in 1997. In October 2017, Kitano completed his Outrage crime trilogy with the release of Outrage Coda. He is also known internationally for hosting the game show Takeshi's Castle (1986–1990) and starring in the film Battle Royale (2000).
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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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Bonita Rajpurohit
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Writer/ Director/Actor/Editor. Born & brought up in Rajasthan, Bonita started with modeling for brands & acting in TV/Digital ads. She was crowned the Miss Trans Queen India in 2019. Driven to write her own roles, In 2020, she became part of 1719 Film Factory. She started her career as an Actor and Editor with the 2023 film 'It's All In Your Head". Her directorial debut was a fashion film for URBANIC. She won the QDrishti Film Grant by Kashish Film Festival and developed her script for her next short ‘IYKYK’, under the mentorship of Alankrita Srivastava & further received funds from Lotus Visual Productions. The shoot begins in February 2024. Simultaneously she is also co-writing and co-directing a miniseries ‘Blah Blah Blah” with Dhruv Solanki on a few of the episodes, along with editing it and acting in it.
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Gérard Barray
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Gérard Barray (born 2 November 1931 in Toulouse) is a French actor.
Barray's parents split up quickly and his mother, who came from Montauban decided to return to her hometown with her little boy. Around the age of 15, he discovered a passion for jazz; he participated in a few shows in nightclubs while pursuing his studies and obtained a bachelor's degree at the Faculty of Toulouse. Camille Ricard, an actress and teacher at the Conservatory of Toulouse, who advised him to go to Paris with a letter of recommendation for a friend, Noel Roquevert. Barray enrolled at the Cours Simon, a drama school in Paris. Four years later, Gérard Barray won the Jury It will then excel in the roles of knights with a big heart. He starred as D'Artagnan, Pardaillan, Surcouf and Scaramouche. In total there practice gender in a dozen feature films, most of which are box-office success, widely known abroad. Besides films swashbuckling as Pardaillan and Scaramouche and adventure films like Surcouf, Barray turned police commissioner in two San Antonio movies. In 1969, he starred beside young actress Claude Jade in "The Witness". He played Van Britten, a mysterious museum curator who seduces a young English teacher. It was his last major role.
For Claude Berri he played in Le Cinéma de papa (1970) as Richard, a super star and rather temperamental actor. His comeback in 1997 was in Alejandro Amenabar's "Abre los ojos" as Devernois, a TV man.
Gérard Barray was appointed an Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters in January 2010.
Source: Article "Gérard Barray" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Natasha Lytess
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Natasha Lytess (born 16 May 1911, Berlin, Germany – died 12 May 1963, Zurich, Switzerland) was an actress, writer and drama coach. Born Natalia Postmann and also known as Tala Forman, she had studied with the director Max Reinhardt and appeared in the repertory theater.
When the Nazis came to power, and in light of her Jewish heritage, she moved to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. Among her acting credits were appearances in Comrade X (1940), Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942), and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951). In her career as a drama coach, her students included Mamie Van Doren, Virginia Leith, and Ann Savage (who reputedly got her stage name after a particularly "savage" argument with Lytess). Lytess is known best for her partnership with actress Marilyn Monroe from 1948 to 1956. During her time as a drama coach for Columbia Pictures, Lytess was shown Monroe's screen test and convinced the head of Columbia Pictures to hire Monroe for a six-month contract. Lytess coached Marilyn through more than 20 films before their partnership began to deteriorate. She died of cancer four days before her 52nd birthday in Zurich, Switzerland. She was portrayed by Lindsay Crouse in Norma Jeane & Marilyn, and by Embeth Davidtz in The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe.
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Nacho Serapio
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Nacho Serapio is a Spanish filmmaker with a passion for action and martial arts.
His passion is equally shared both in front of and behind the cameras, having trained as a producer, director, actor, stuntman and editor.
His skills in Martial Arts have led him to obtain a whopping 9 World Champion titles (forms, weapons, creative forms, combat, etc...), the Elite Athlete certification, and being part of 2 Hall of Fame of the Martial Arts.
Nacho grew up with superhero comics, and this passion was what led him to draw, practice martial arts, and want to "tell stories."
He developed his skills as an actor at the METROPOLIS Film School (Madrid), where he went on to win a national theater award.
As a filmmaker, he has worked for various advertising agencies making spots and video clips, becoming deputy director of the PLAY OCIO TV channel, where he also worked as a producer of numerous TV shows, obtaining the Best TV award in 2013.
In addition to having been the director and star of several short films, some of them produced by himself.
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Ishita Dutta
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Ishita Duttais an Indian film and television actress, known for her role in the TV serial Ek Ghar Banaunga. She is the younger sister of actress Tanushree Dutta. Dutta was raised in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand to a conservative Bengali Hindu family. She attended D.B.M.S. English School in her hometown, Jamshedpur and studied Media Studies in Mumbai. Her sister, Tanushree Dutta, is also a model/actress known for winning the Femina Miss India title (2004). Dutta started her acting career with the 2012 Telugu film Chanakyudu, opposite Tanish. Ishita and her sister Tanushree Dutta were to work together in their next film, Yenidu Manasali, directed by Shrikanth H.R. and produced by Niyaaz Ahmed, but it was left incomplete and unreleased. She then played the leading role in the soap opera Ek Ghar Banaunga. She made her Bollywood debut, playing a supporting role in the 2015 action drama Drishyam alongside top actors Ajay Devgn, Tabu and Shriya Saran. She played the role of Ajay Devgn's daughter.
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Shane Filan
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Shane Steven Filan (born 5 July 1979) is an Irish singer best known as a member of the pop vocal group Westlife, which was formed in 1998, disbanded in 2012, and regrouped in 2018. Westlife has released thirteen albums, embarked on twelve world tours, and won several awards, becoming one of the most successful musical groups of all time.
Filan has released three solo albums: You and Me (2013), Right Here (2015), and Love Always (2017). He has appeared sixteen times in the UK Singles Chart with number-one hits, making him one of the most-appeared Irish music artists in British music number-one singles history.
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Fernando Spencer
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Fernando José Spencer Hartmann was born in 1927 in the São José neighborhood of Recife. He began working at the age of 17 at the Delegacia de Ordem Política e Social de Pernambuco, but his goal was to pursue a career as a writer. He contributed to several newspapers in Recife, including Diário de Pernambuco, Jornal Pequeno, and Jornal do Commercio. Spencer worked for forty years (1958-1998) as a journalist, proofreader, and film editor at Diário de Pernambuco and also gained experience in radio. In the 1960s, he created the programs Filmelândia and Falando de Cinema on Rádio Clube de Pernambuco and Rádio Tamandaré. From the 1980s to 2000, he took on the role of coordinator at the Cinemateca da Fundação Joaquim Nabuco. His filmmaking career began in 1969, and he is considered one of the pioneers of Super-8 cinema with his film A Busca. The filmmaker also served as president of the Associação Brasileira de Documentaristas and was Director of the Theater and Cinema Division of the Secretaria de Educação e Cultura at the Prefeitura Municipal do Recife in the 1970s. He is the author of approximately 36 short films in various formats – Super-8, 16mm, and 35mm – winning numerous national and international awards.
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Jonás Trueba
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He has written and directed the films All Songs Speak About Me (2010), for which he was nominated for the Goya for Best New Director, The Illusions (2013), which received awards and recognition from critics and audiences after his tour of international festivals, The romantic exiles (2015), Special Jury Prize at Malaga Festival among other awards and festivals, La reconquista (2016), which participated in the Official Section of the San Sebastian Festival, as well as in international festival numbers, and for which he received the RNE 2016 Critical Eye Award. At the end of that year, Who's Stopping Us begins, a project of cinematographic approach to different young adolescents that is shown in different pieces, such as a film in progress. His most recent film is The Virgin of August (2019), Fipresci Prize for International Critics and Special Jury Mention at the Karlovy Vary International Festival 2019.
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