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Gracyanne Barbosa
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Gracyanne Jacobina Barbosa Vieira is a Brazilian fitness model and Carnaval dancer. Barbosa who had appeared on the cover of the Brazilian Playboy's February 2007 issue, also posed for the cover of Revista Sexy December 2011 issue .
In 2012, photos of Barbosa squatting were uploaded to social media, followed by a workout video. Barbosa's ostensible squat weight (around 450 lbs) caused "an uproar on the bodybuilding forums for months", leading to debates at popular websites such as Bodybuilding.com on the authenticity of the weight plates used by her. On 18 May 2012, Barbosa married pagode and samba singer Belo who was formerly married to Viviane Araújo, another famous rainha de bateria. The ceremony was held at Candelária Church in Rio de Janeiro.
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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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Hyacinth Wijeratne
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Threeris Hyacinth Wijeratne was a prominent and highly respected veteran actress in Sri Lankan cinema, theatre, and television. Spanning a career of over four decades, she became widely beloved and recognized as the "Mother of the mini-screen" due to her emotional depth and frequent portrayal of maternal roles in many popular television dramas. Tragically, she passed away on July 30, 2021, at the age of 74 following a fatal road accident in Lindula, Thalawakele, while returning to Colombo after a teledrama film shoot in Nuwara Eliya.
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Zerocalcare
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Michele Rech (Italian: [miˈkɛːle ˈrɛk]; born 12 December 1983), known as Zerocalcare ([ˌdzɛrokalˈkaːre]), is an Italian cartoonist. His pen name, meaning "zero limescale", is based from a TV commercial jingle for a descaler product that came to his mind when he had to quickly come up with a Internet nickname.
Rech was born in Cortona, Tuscany, Italy, to an Italian father from Rome and a French mother. He was raised in France and later in Rome (Rebibbia-Ponte Mammolo area), where he graduated at the Lycée français Chateaubriand. In 2003, at the age of 20, he began working as an illustrator for several newspapers. At the same time, he worked on a webcomic for Zuda Comics, the online division of DC Comics. In 2004 he created a comic about the 2001 G8 summit protests in which he took part.
He published his first graphic novel, The Armadillo Prophecy, in October 2011 and in November he created zerocalcare.it, a website where he published autobiographical comic strips. In September 2012, the blog won the Macchianera Award as 'Best draftsman-Cartoonist' and the Gran Guinigi Award at Lucca Comics for best short story with The Armadillo Prophecy.
In April 2016, his fourth graphic novel Kobane Calling: Greetings from Northern Syria was published. The work had been previously published in 'Internazionale' and focused on the conflict between the Kurds and the Islamic State. Kobane Calling won the Micheluzzi Award as best cartoon at Naples Comicon, 2017. The same year, he was invited to attend San Diego Comic Con following the English release of Kobane Calling, but only obtained his US Visa last minute, due to his travels to Rojava.
On September 2018 a live-action adaptation of The Armadillo Prophecy was released. In November, the MAXXI museum of Rome hosted an exhibition of his works, titled Zerocalcare: Scavare fossati, Nutrire coccodrilli, which lasted until March of 2019. The same month a theatrical adaptation of Kobane Calling debuted at Teatro del Giglio in Lucca, during the Lucca Comics & Games, and toured Italy as part of the 2019/2020 theatre season. In 2020 he gained further exposure thanks to his animated short series "Rebibbia Quarantine", broadcast on LA7 inside the variety show Propaganda Live during lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy.
On December 2020 he announced that he would be creating an animated series for Netflix titled Tear Along the Dotted Line. The show premiered on 18 October 2021 at the Rome Film Festival. On 16 November, Ablaze Publishing announced that they would be releasing English translations of Zerocalcare's first three graphic novels, The Armadillo Prophecy (2011), Tentacles At My Throat (2012) and Forget My Name (2014). Tear Along the Dotted Line was released on Netflix on 17 November 2021 to positive reviews. A follow-up, titled This World Won't Tear Me Down, was released on 9 June 2023.
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Yuri Tsunematsu
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She was born in Tokyo on October 9th, 1998 and began her career - a small role at age six aside - at age nine in the WOWOW satellite channel's Soratobu Taiya mini-serial. She has been active ever since on both the small and large screens including in scene-stealing performances in Have A Song On Your Lips and Before We Vanish. She has also done voice acting, appeared in music videos and jumped into the corporate commercial realm and pushed vitamins, noodles, MOS Burger and more. Not bad for a girl who worried her parents at a very young age for being too shy. Yuri is signed to the Amuse talent agency.
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Will Gadd
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Will Gadd (born March 8, 1967) is a prominent Canadian ice climber, mixed climber and paraglider pilot. He formerly held the paragliding world distance record, with a flight of 423 km in Zapata, Texas. He is the host of the documentary series Fearless Planet, working with regional scientists and traveling with them, or by himself, to various locations that are in the individual episode's focus. He is the son of Ben Gadd, award-winning Jasper, Alberta guide, writer and naturalist expert on the natural history of the Canadian Rockies who wrote the bestselling Handbook of the Canadian Rockies.
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Vijaya Kumaratunga
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Kovilage Anton Vijaya Kumaranatunga (Sinhala: කොවිලගේ ඇන්ටන් විජය කුමාරණතුංග Tamil: விஜய_குமாரணதுங்க); (9 October 1945 – 16 February 1988), popularly known as Vijaya Kumaratunga, was a Sri Lankan film actor, playback singer, and a politician. One of the most popular icons in Sri Lankan cinema, He was married to former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaranatunga from 1978 until his assassination in 1988. He was the Founder of Sri Lanka Mahajana Party.
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Jean-Marie Muller
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Jean-Marie Muller, born October 21, 1939 in Vesoul (France) and died in Orléans on December 18, 2021 at the age of 82, is a French philosopher, specialist in Gandhi and nonviolence. He is director of studies at the Institute for Research on Nonviolent Conflict Resolution. He is also a founding member of the Movement for a Nonviolent Alternative, and a member of the sponsorship committee of the French Coordination for the Decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence. Since 2009, he has been a founding member of the International Council of the first academic university for nonviolence in the world, AUNOHR, founded in Lebanon.
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Pawat Chittsawangdee
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Ohm Pawat Chittsawangdee is a Thai actor and model signed under GMMTV. In December 2022, Ohm graduated from the cinema and digital media programme at Srinakharinwirot University's College of Social Communication Innovation majoring in acting and directing.
Ohm began working in the entertainment industry with the leading role of Frame in the 2016 series "Make It Right." It was with his titular role in the 2019 film "Dew," though, that Ohm gained wide recognition.
In recognition of his acting abilities, he won Best Dramatic Scene for the GMMTV series "He's Coming To Me" at the LINE TV Awards (2020). He won Best Supporting Actor for the film "Dew" at the prestigious 28th Bangkok Critics Assembly Awards (2020).
Ohm owns the clothing brands Meheart.bkk and NO EXCUSE.
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Mia Fiona Kut
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Mia Fiona Kut is an actor, director, and writer from Vancouver, Canada. She is of mixed Chinese, Indonesian and Russian descent. Growing up, she was an accomplished ballet dancer and studied piano under the Royal Conservatory of Music. Mia is the founder and owner of wellness brand Luna Nectar, while simultaneously pursuing her passions in acting and filmmaking. Striving for diversity and equality in the film industry, she was chosen to be a part of 2019's Women in the Director's Chair Story & Leadership initiative. In addition, she was also recognized with the 2019 BC Business 30 Under 30 Award.
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