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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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Vishnuvardhan

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Sampath Kumar (18 September 1950 – 30 December 2009), known by his stage name Vishnuvardhan, was an Indian actor who worked predominantly in Kannada cinema besides also having sporadically appeared in Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam language films. Vishnuvardhan has a prolific career spanning over four decades, during which he has acted in more than 220 films. A popular cultural icon of Karnataka, and holds the status of a matinée idol among the Kannada diaspora. He is popularly called as Sahasa Simha, Dada and The Angry Young Man of Kannada Cinema. Vishnuvardhan's contributions to Kannada cinema have been praised by his contemporaries in the Indian film industry. The Government of Karnataka honoured him with the highest civilian awards of Karnataka State, the Karnataka Ratna Award in 2025, Rajyothsava Prashasthi in 1990 and the Dr. Rajkumar Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 for his contributions to Kannada cinema. He was called The Phoenix of Indian Cinema. In 2008, a poll conducted by CNN-IBN listed Vishnuvardhan as the most popular star in the Kannada film industry.
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Katia Mosally

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Katia Caroline Mosally, born April 26, 1987 in Vällingby parish in Stockholm county, is a Swedish-Syrian international marketer at the record company Capitol Records in Los Angeles. She is also trained as a lawyer at, among others, Harvard and Glasgow University. Katia Mosally began her career at the record companies Sony Music and Universal Music in Sweden, before she later started working at Capitol Records in the USA. She has worked with artists such as Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, Shawn Mendes, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Katy Perry. She has also been part of the team that launched the music group The Fooo, which later changed its name to FO&O. The band won several prestigious awards under her leadership, including numerous MTV awards. Mosally replaced Nikki Amini as a judge on the seventeenth season of the TV show Idol. She was one of the participants in TV4's Förrädarna, premiering in the fall of 2023. Mosally, who was chosen as a traitor, stood as the winner of the program in the final, without having received a single vote against her during the course of the program. Since the late 2010s, she has been living in Los Angeles. In October 2024 Gravkammaren premiered - an afterthought program for Förrädarna that Mosally hosts.
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Arturo Vidal

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Arturo Erasmo Vidal Pardo (born 22 May 1987) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish club Barcelona and the Chile national team. His displays during his time at Juventus led him to be nicknamed Il Guerriero ("The Warrior"), Rey Arturo ("King Arthur") and La Piranha by the Italian press due to his hard-tackling and aggressive, tenacious style of play. Vidal started his career with Colo-Colo, where he won three Chilean Primera División titles. He moved to Europe, where he joined Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and played there for four seasons. He then moved to Juventus in 2011, where he became widely recognized as one of the best midfielders in world football. At Juventus, he won the Scudetti in all four of his seasons and also was integral for them in reaching the 2015 UEFA Champions League Final. Vidal was named to the ten-man shortlist for the 2015 UEFA Best Player in Europe Award following his performances. On 28 July 2015, Vidal returned to the Bundesliga, joining Bayern Munich and won three consecutive Bundesliga titles. After three years at Munich, he signed for La Liga giants Barcelona. Vidal has earned 115 caps for the Chile national team since his debut in 2007, playing in the 2011, 2015 and 2019 Copa América tournaments, as well as the Copa América Centenario, the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups, and the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup, helping his nation to Copa América victory in 2015 and 2016.
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Gigi Darlene

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Born Heli (pronounced ‘Hee-lee’) Weinreich in Berlin, Germany, Gigi Darlene immigrated to Queens as a teenager to live with family friends. Blonde, beautiful and voluptuous, she quickly found work as a print model but found even more steady work as an exotic dancer and nude model in men's magazines (often using the alias Lenore Rheine). Believing Americans were too prudish and uptight about nudity and sex, Heli had no issue supporting herself by taking off her clothes. While working the dance circuit, she met and befriended actress Darlene Bennett and transitioned into films herself. After a few years working for the likes of Barry Mahon and Doris Wishman, Gigi gave up her film career after meeting her future husband, hypnotist Charles Lamont. The two toured the U.S. doing a popular show for years, eventually settling in Las Vegas and then Florida. After Charles died, Gigi worked as a real estate agent and an extra on films shot in Southern Florida.
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Billy Blanks

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Muscular African American sports star, actor, media identity and inventor of the phenomenally popular "Tae Bo" fitness system, derived from his extensive martial arts training. Blanks was born in Eerie, Pennsylvania in 1955 amongst humble backgrounds and grew up as one of 15 children, battling dyslexia and tendon problems. However that didn't stop him from starting his martial arts training at age 14 and eventually achieving black belts in tae kwon do & several other arts, and winning numerous US martial arts tournaments. Blanks first popped up on movie screens in the mid 1980s in tough guy parts utilizing his athletic background and grim faced looks. Films roles included Tango & Cash (1989), Driving Force (1989) and A.W.O.L.: Absent Without Leave (1990). Things looked up in 1991, when Blanks scored the minor role of drug addicted running back "Billy Cole" in the explosive The Last Boy Scout (1991)....and further work followed often sharing lead billing in low budget - high action fare such as Talons of the Eagle (1992), TC 2000 (1993) and Expect No Mercy (1995). In the late 1990s, Billy's innovative and exciting "Tae Bo" workout routine swept around the world like wildfire, and propelled him into the position of one of the world's most recognizable and biggest selling fitness trainers. The remarkable Blanks continues to refine and promote his unique "Tae Bo" fitness system, and he operates the Billy Blanks World Training Center in Sherman Oaks, California. 7th Degree Black Belt Billy Blanks had one of the greatest karate fight records in the sport's long history. Blanks was a 7-time world karate champion, the first Amateur Athletic Union Champ in 1975, the 1984 Massachusetts Golden Gloves Boxing Champion, and the Tri-State Golden Gloves Champion of Champions. He was the captain of the United States Karate Team and won over 30 gold medals in international competition. He was the number 1 or number 2 rated full-contact karate fighter in the United States for almost seven straight years. His epic battles with "Nasty" Anderson are legends among martial arts fans. He posted over 300 career victories. In 1982, Billy Blanks was honored by being inducted into the Karate Hall of Fame.
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Vitali Baganov

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Vitali Viktorovich Baganov (Russian: Виталий Викторович Баганов; born September 6, 1952) is a Russian and American actor of film and television who guest starred as Valery the Russian gangster in The Sopranos episodes "Pine Barrens" and "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power". Baganov also voiced Ray Bulgarin in Grand Theft Auto IV and The Ballad of Gay Tony. Description above from the Wikipedia article Vitali Baganov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Steven Geller

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Steven Geller was a British actor, musician and DJ. His first acting job, at the age of eight, was playing Tiny Tim and very young Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' at the Barbican Theatre, London. Other notable stage roles included the title role in Cameron Mackintosh's production of 'Oliver!' at the Palladium. After leading roles in a number of children's TV productions Geller left acting to focus on his award-winning career as a DJ and music producer. He passed away of a brain tumour in November 2015.
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Conceição Evaristo

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Maria da Conceição Evaristo de Brito (Belo Horizonte, November 29, 1946) is a Brazilian linguist and writer. She had a prolific career as a university researcher and professor. She is one of the most influential literary figures of the postmodernist movement in Brazil, writing in the genres of poetry, the novel, the short story, and the essay. Her works address themes such as racism, social inequality, identity, memory, and—above all—the lived experiences of Black women, employing comparative literature to gain a critical perspective on these subjects.
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Chad Ayers

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Chad Ayers is an American actor that grew up in South Carolina. In middle school he was that boy in the schoolyard surrounded by a crowd of kids while he did goofy routines made famous by Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy. He and his best buddy were always making tapes or videos doing magic shows and clowning around. One year they did a full blown audio drama western with sound effects. They were tireless.. Chad's grandparents owned drive in movie theaters and his father was a developer and owned several businesses. His mother spent a great deal of time in Saudi Arabia growing up due to the fact her father was an oil executive. She sold Real-estate and raised three kids At the age of ten through fifteen Chad trained and competed in Boxing and Martial Arts. He completed an JROTC program in Military School where he ran track and played football and was on the Drill Team. He achieved the rank of second lieutenant. He stumbled into acting in college where he enjoyed some early success and met his future wife who blessed him with three spectacular daughters. In college he started on stage in lead roles in such great productions such as Shakespeare's The Tempest , Bell Book and Candle, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe and musicals like South Pacific and Biloxi Blues. When Chad finished his college years he knew he wanted to act professionally and set out on that journey. His career led him to work with French Television Super Star Veronique Jannot in Madame Le Consul. Chad has also worked with some of the best that Hollywood has to offer. He has worked with Dana Carvey and John Lovitz of Saturday Night Live fame in a Super Bowl commercial. He was also fortunate to have worked with such acting legends as Burt Reynolds, Mickey Rooney, Elliott Gould and Judith Light and credited alongside Demi Moore, Beau Bridges, Sam Robards, Armand Assante, Ving Rhames and Robert Patrick to name a few. Chad co starred in a Feature Film thriller titled The Stalker Directed by Atlanta Film Maker John Giorgio Produced by Michelle Lewis.. Chad portrays an array of characters from the antagonist to the professor to the detective. Chad was trained by Caroline Serine with her Minimalist Film acting technique. Chad has just wrapped a TV Pilot "Black Creek and is the co-creator of another TV Pilot " The Watcher" Versatility is his specialty. Chad prides himself on being a family man and an acting professional. He is always up for the challenge.
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