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Ivan Rebroff

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Ivan Rebroff (31 July 1931 – 27 February 2008) was a German-born vocalist, allegedly of Russian ancestry, who rose to prominence for his distinct and extensive vocal range of four and a half octaves, ranging from the soprano to bass registers. Rebroff was born in Berlin as Hans-Rolf Rippert to German parents. His parents were Paul Rippert, an engineer born in 1897 in Liebenwerda, and Luise Fenske, born in Bydgoszcz (then part of Prussian Bromberg). He claimed Russian descent, and while often disputed, this has never been totally refuted. In a 1989 interview with Izvestia, he said "according to documents I am Ivan Pavlovich Rebroff" (Russian: Иван Павлович Ребров). He studied singing at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. Although his knowledge and pronunciation of Russian was imperfect, he became famous for singing Russian folk songs, but also performed opera, light classics and folk songs from many other countries. He was known on stage for his gusto. He performed over 6,000 concerts in his career, including a two-year seven-day-a-week stint at the French opera, singing and acting, among other greats, the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. Rebroff still performed 12 shows in 14 days when he was well into his seventies, such as on an Australian tour. Ivan Rebroff described himself as international, the "connection between East and West". He became a citizen of Greece and lived on the Greek island of Skopelos in the Sporades. Rebroff was homosexual. As well as being a phenomenal singer, videos such as this and photos such as this suggest that he was at least a reasonable violinist and keyboardist (he is pictured playing a church organ but may have also played the piano). He died in Frankfurt after a long illness. Four days after his death, his brother Horst Rippert, who is nine years his senior (and by his own unsubstantiated accounts shot down Antoine de Saint Exupéry during World War II), claimed part of Rebroff's vast fortune.
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Clémence Poésy

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Clémence Guichard (born 30 October 1982), known professionally as Clémence Poésy, is a French actress and fashion model. After starting on the stage as a child, Poésy studied drama and has been active in both film and television since 1999, including some English-language productions. She is known for the roles of Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter film series, Chloë in In Bruges, Rana in 127 Hours, Natasha Rostova in War and Peace, and the lead role as Elise Wassermann in the 24-episode series The Tunnel.
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Thomas Thieme

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Thomas Thieme (born 29 October 1948) is a German actor. He is considered to be a prolific stage actor and also appeared in more than 100 film and television productions since 1973. In his film and television appearances, Thieme often plays powerful but morally dubious characters. He is perhaps best-known internationally for his roles as Martin Bormann in Downfall (2004) and as Communist minister Bruno Hempf in the Oscar-winning The Lives of Others, for which he was compared to Sydney Greenstreet by Roger Ebert in his review. He played former Bayern Munich boss Uli Hoeneß, who had to spent time in jail for tax evasion, in the 2015 television film Der Patriarch. He had a recurring role in the successful series Babylon Berlin as the police chief Karl Zörgiebel.
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Hiroyuki Sekine

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Born in 1957 in Tokyo, graduated from the Film Department of Tama Art Academy in 1981. Studied the possibilities of producing and screening individual films with Akira Hoshino and others at the school. His first film was Etude (1978), which was selected for the Pia Film Festival in 1982, and from around 1987 he began finding abandoned buildings in Tokyo and turning them into films. His works include Tokyo Sanpo vol. 1 (1987), The Ruins of Igi (1989), Sanno Hotel (1990), Shibuya Hermit (1991), U-O (1992) and The Ruins of Roppongi (1992). Collaboration - Eclipse - L'eclipse vol.1 (1997), with art by Kazuyuki Uno, poetry by Taishi Hirose and video by Hiroyuki Sekine. All works are in 8 mm.
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Koji Fukada

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Koji Fukada (深田 晃司, born 1980) is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Born in Tokyo, Fukada had a father who was a film aficionado and he watched many films on VHS when he was young. When he was 19 years old studying at Taisho University and discovered the Film School of Tokyo, he began taking evening classes in filmmaking. One of his teachers was Kiyoshi Kurosawa. He made his first feature-length film, The Chair, in 2002. He joined the Seinendan theater troupe, headed by Oriza Hirata, in 2005, and has often used their work and their actors in his films. His film Hospitalité won Best Picture in the Japanese Eyes competition of the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2010. Au revoir l'été won the grand prize and the prize of the young jury at the Three Continents Festival in 2013 and his 2016 film Harmonium won the Prix du Jury in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Koji Fukada, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Andrés Castañeda

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Bogotá (Colombia). Interdisciplinary artist, actor, performer and director. He holds a Master's degree in Performing Arts from the Universidad Francisco José de Caldas and a Master's degree in Theater and Live Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. As a scholarship holder at the Conservatory of Music of the same university, he was director of the staging of the opera workshop. Since 2002 he is part of Mapa Teatro Laboratorio de Artistas as actor, performer and researcher. He has developed his work in theater, film and television. His most recent film performance was as the protagonist of The Beauty and The Moody
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Kitaro

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Kitaro (喜多郎 Kitarō), born Masanori Takahashi (高橋 正則, Takahashi Masanori) (February 4, 1953), is a Japanese recording artist, composer, record producer, and arranger noted for his electronic instrumental music, and is often associated and regarded as one of the most prominent musical acts of new age music. He is the winner of a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album (Thinking of You (1999); with a record 16 nominations in the same category) and a Golden Globe Award for the Heaven & Earth (1993) original score. Kitaro was born in Toyohashi, Aichi, Japan, and is a graduate of Sahid University. After graduating, Kitaro moved to Tokyo to experience and become a part of the music scene, and it was there that he discovered the synthesizer. His first synthesizer was analog, and he recalls having "just loved the analog sound that it made compared to today's digital sound". His parents were first opposed to the idea of their son having a musical career. In an effort to maneuver him towards their vision, they made arrangements for him to take a job at a local company. In return, he left home without telling them. He supported himself by taking on several part-time jobs such as cooking and civil service work, while composing songs at night. In the early 1970s, he changed completely to keyboards. He joined the Japanese music group Far East Family Band which was formed in 1965, and toured with them around the world. While in Europe, he met the German electronica and former Tangerine Dream member Klaus Schulze. Schulze produced two albums for the band and gave Kitaro some tips for controlling synthesizers. In 1976, Kitaro left Far East Family Band and travelled through Asia (China, Laos, Thailand, India). [Wikipedia]
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Sassan Saffari

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Sassan Saffari is half Persian and half English, Scottish, Irish, French, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, & Danish. A lot of halves. He was born and raised in Boston, MA. His Grandmother, Edith Conklin Weaver; a painter, poet, and lover of art, had a profound impact on his life, work, and growth as an artist. His college years were spent honing his craft in San Diego at his alma mater, MiraCosta College Theatre. Throughout his time in the program, he was fortunate enough to win scholarships and awards through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and had the opportunity of performing in over thirty productions in San Diego; professionally and at his college. Through the Kennedy Center, he studied at Steppenwolf West with Laurie Metcalf, Jeff Perry, French Stewart, David Razowsky, Kim Rubinstein, Alexandra Billings, and countless others whom guided him to be the versatile actor he is today. He was also invited to The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as a guest artist and award winner.
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Peter Morén

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Peter Morén (born 5 May 1976 in Mora, Sweden) is a Swedish musician, singer, and songwriter. He is best known as the guitarist and vocalist of the indie rock trio Peter Bjorn and John, formed in Stockholm in 1999. Morén began his musical career playing violin before switching to guitar and later studying music in Västerås, where he met future bandmate Björn Yttling. While studying film science in Stockholm, he met John Eriksson, and the three later formed Peter Bjorn and John. In addition to his work with the band, Morén has released several solo albums, including “The Last Tycoon” (2008), “I Spåren Av Tåren” (2010), “Pyramiden” (2012), and “40” (2017). He is also a founding member of the Stockholm-based artist collective INGRID.
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Shivpujan tiwari

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Shivpujan Tiwari is an Indian Actor, he worked as supporting actor in Incredible India He also had played a strong character named Fakira in Hindi Movie Badla Hindustani Ka (2018) He is a well known Actor for his short movie as he played lead Father Character in "Kya Chahiye love or gender (2017)", And done many good short films such as "Mayajaal","Stupid can reach home" with different characters. He is also well known theatre artist he had played many drama in Prithvi theatre,Mumbai as well as Delhi. He was born on 28 June 1972 in a small village of Pratapgarh Uttarpradesh.
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