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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 who 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, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Gautham Ram Karthik
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Gautham Ram Karthik is an Indian film actor who works in the Tamil film industry. He made his acting debut in Mani Ratnam's Kadal (2013).
Gautham Karthik was born to Tamil film actor Karthik Muthuraman and his first wife actress Ragini Karthik. He is the grandson of actor R. Muthuraman. He spent his growing years in Udhagamandalam and was graduating at Christ University, Bangalore, until film maker Mani Ratnam approached him.
Before that, Gautham was not connected with the film industry. He holds a bachelor's degree in Psychology, English & Media. In college he performed as a guitarist and vocalist in his band Dead End Street. He has two younger siblings, Ghayn and Thiran.
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Deric Augustine
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Deric Augustine is two minutes older than his identical twin brother Deven, born to the parents of Donna and Deric Augustine in New Orleans, LA. The twins began their acting career in (1991) and also did print and catalog work under the guidance of their mother. When Donna Augustine suffered a hemorrhage stroke, while Deric was a freshman at Northwest High School in Opelousas, LA, he took a break from acting to focus on caring for his mother. With mounting family medical bills, Deric decided to focus on his academics and athletics in order to put himself through college. A star football player at the University of New Orleans, Deric excelled in a number of subjects including Theatre/Film and Marketing. After earning his Bachelor's degree, Deric decided to pursue acting full time and was recently cast in the feature film When The Game Stands Tall due for release in 2014. - IMDb Mini Biography
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Piotr Domalewski
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Director, scriptwriter, actor.
He developed his abilities in filmmaking on the set of the famous "Demon", where he was the assistant of director Marcin Wrona. During directing studies at WRiTV in Katowice, he made several short films, awarded at many festivals.
His full-length directorial debut film "Cicha Noc" won wide recognition at the 42nd Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia in 2017 winning, among others The Great Prize - " Zlote Lwy". The film also won 10 statuettes of the Polish Film Award "Orzel" in 2018.
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Willoughby Gray
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Willoughby Gray (5 November 1916 – 13 February 1993) was an English actor of stage and screen born in London. (Though several sources suggest he was born in Aberdeen, Scotland). He was the stepson of Henry Pownall, as his father, Captain John Gray, was killed in Iraq close to the time of his birth. John Willoughby Gray served with distinction during the Second World War with GHQ Liaison Regiment (Phantom). For most of the campaign in Europe he commanded a patrol with 11th Armoured Division. For his gallant and distinguished services in the North West Europe campaign, he was appointed MBE. His recommendation reads: "Captain Gray has commanded a divisional patrol with outstanding success throughout the campaign. The resource and initiative shown by him at all times has resulted in a great deal of vital information reaching Army and Corps HQ much more quickly than would otherwise have been the case, In addition, he has shown great enterprise and complete disregard for his own personal safety on many occasions, notably whilst carrying out reconnaissances in the Antwerp area during the advance through Belgium. The bearing of this officer under arduous conditions and his cheerfulness and willingness to do any work delegated to him unhesitatingly have been an example to those with whom he came in contact." He achieved popularity in the mid-1950s after making 38 appearances on the television series The Adventures of Robin Hood. He appeared as 'Pete' in Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party on its very first run in 1958, this being just one of countless stage performances he made. Though over-shadowed by his stage career, Gray made a handful of incredibly popular films, notably as a priest in Laurence Olivier's film Richard III (1955), The Mummy (1959), Absolution (1978), The Hit(1984), the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985) as retired Nazi doctor and Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) henchman Karl Mortner/Hans Glaub,[1] and as the elderly and kind king in The Princess Bride (1987). In the late 1980s, he appeared in the BBC drama Howards' Way as banker Sir John Stevens. In Sergei Bondarchuk's 1970 film Waterloo, he is credited as both an actor (playing Captain Ramsey) and a military consultant.[2] Gray died aged 76 in February 1993. His wife, who wrote as Felicity Gray,(Nee Margaret Andraea) was a choreographer, speaker and writer on ballet, who notably taught Gene Tierney for her role in Never Let Me Go. Description above from the Wikipedia article Willoughby Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kurt Williams
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Kurt Williams is a VES award-winning visual effects producer, co-producer, and executive producer who has worked on several Oscar-nominated films.He began his career as a filmmaker in commercials as a producer and AD. Having worked on many feature films as a co-producer, he's proven his talents not only in visual effects but with an overall view toward the entire production of films and episodic projects.His experience in live-action production, motion capture, and visual effects has brought a comprehensive insight to all of his endeavours.Kurt has experience as an executive producer on two (in development) features. Both projects utilised the up-to-the-minute virtual production tools for all phases of production, planning, and budgeting.His role as executive producer included creative and fiscal planning for story development and discovery, pre-production, and physical production through to post, as well as early-stage planning for multiple cross-platform materials.Most recently, he co-produced AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER for Netflix, which included overseeing virtual production using immersive LED wall technology.He is a member of the PGA, DGA, and VES.
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Michiyo Yasuda
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Michiyo Okusu (大楠 道代, Ōkusu Michiyo, born February 27, 1946) is a Chinese-born Japanese actress. She has been nominated for four Japanese Academy Awards, and won the 1981 Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role prize for her performance in Zigeunerweisen. She began her career as a film ingenue using the stage name Michiyo Yasuda, under which she scored major early successes with films such as A Fool's Love and numerous love stories and "samurai" period piece dramas.
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Manny Jacinto
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Manny Jacinto (born August 19, 1987) is a Canadian actor of Filipino descent. He was born in Manila, Philippines, and moved to Canada with his family when he was about three years old. He grew up in Richmond, British Columbia, and initially pursued a degree in civil engineering at the University of British Columbia before transitioning to acting.
Jacinto started his career with small roles in television series such as Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, and iZombie. His breakout role came in 2016 when he was cast as Jason Mendoza in the NBC sitcom The Good Place, where he gained widespread recognition for his comedic performance.
He has also appeared in films like Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) and Top Gun: Maverick (2022). In 2024, he portrayed Qimir in the Star Wars series The Acolyte. Additionally, he provided the voice of Scott Denoga in the Disney Channel animated series Hailey's On It! (2023–2024).
In 2019, he announced his engagement to actress Dianne Doan.
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Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977), or simply Elvis, was an American businessman, entrepreneur, singer and actor. Dubbed the "King of Rock and Roll", he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines during a transformative era in race relations, led him to both great success and initial controversy.
Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis, Tennessee, with his family when he was 13 years old. His music career began there in 1954, recording at Sun Records with producer Sam Phillips, who wanted to bring the sound of European-American music to a wider audience. Presley, on rhythm acoustic guitar, and accompanied by lead guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, was a pioneer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. In 1955, drummer D. J. Fontana joined to complete the lineup of Presley's classic quartet and RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who would manage him for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA Victor single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. Within a year, RCA would sell ten million Presley singles. With a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records, Presley became the leading figure of the newly popular sound of rock and roll, though his performative style and promotion of the then-marginalized sound led to him being widely considered a threat to the moral well-being of the European-American youth.
In November 1956, Presley made his film debut in Love Me Tender. Drafted into military service in 1958, Presley relaunched his recording career two years later with some of his most commercially successful work. He held few concerts, however, and guided by Parker, proceeded to devote much of the 1960s to making Hollywood films and soundtrack albums, most of them critically derided. Some of his most famous films included Jailhouse Rock (1957), Blue Hawaii (1961), and Viva Las Vegas (1964). In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed television comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley gave the first concert by a solo artist to be broadcast around the world, Aloha from Hawaii. Years of prescription drug abuse and unhealthy eating habits severely compromised his health, and he died suddenly in 1977 at his Graceland estate at the age of 42.
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Macy Rodman
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Macy Rodman (born 1989) is an American singer-songwriter, comedian, podcaster, and performance artist. Rodman's style combines punk and rock with 90s inspired club-pop beats, eliciting comparisons to Tori Amos, PJ Harvey, Sinéad O'Connor, Björk, Sia, Portishead, Madonna, Liz Phair, and Courtney Love. She has released three studio albums, The Lake (2017), Endless Kindness (2019), and Unbelievable Animals (2021).
Rodman was born in Juneau, Alaska in 1989 and moved to New York City at age 18 in 2008 to go to the Parsons School of Design. She later dropped out. Rodman is a transgender woman and started her transition shortly after moving to the city. She lives in Brooklyn, New York and was married in November 2024.
Rodman became involved in the Brooklyn drag scene after moving to New York through DJing and performing. She then began to host a weekly alternative drag show called Bathsalts. In 2014, Rodman designed the wigs, make up, and costumes for Femme Fatale Theatre's production of Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists. Rodman was featured on the cover of My Comrade, an underground magazine covering drag in June 2022.
Rodman released her debut EP, Help, in 2016. Her first two albums, The Lake and Endless Kindness, were released in 2017 and 2019 respectively, on Sweat Equity. She released two remix EPs, called Neovaginal Dilation Expansion Packs, in 2020 for her songs "Berlin" and "Vaseline". Rodman signed to Shamir's Accidental Popstar Records in 2021, and released her third studio album, Unbelievable Animals, the same year. Rodman wrote the songs for the album during the COVID-19 lockdown. The album consists of twelve songs written in the span of a month deals with heartbreak and pandemic anxiety and combines "radio-rock shine with dirt-punk roots, like the energy in a '90s nightclub", with "a dash of Ray of Light-esque experimental pop and Chromatica-style club bangers." In 2022, she produced Ysak's single "Crossroads." On March 4, 2022, Rodman released an EP of Unbelievable Animals remixes called Uncontrollable Flammables, featuring remixes from Ariel Zetina, False Witness, Veronica Electronica, Michete, Yufi, Jim Cannon, Penelopi, So Drove, and M Zavos. In 2023, she remixed Softee's song "Isn't Enough," and in 2024 she performed at Doll Invasion on Fire Island.
Rodman hosts the improvisational comedy podcast Nymphowars with Theda Hammel. In 2023, she appeared in Cole Escola's short film Our Home Out West.
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