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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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Rita Lengyel
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Rita Lengyel is a German actress and director. She grew up in Cologne, Budapest and Berlin. In 1989, director Oliver Hirschbiegel cast the 16-year-old Rita for a role in his film "Der Eistaucher". This was followed a year later by a leading role in Klaus Emmerich's feature film "Pizza Colonia". She took acting lessons in Cologne and Los Angeles. Since 1990, she has appeared in various TV films, series and serials. She has played leading roles in cinema productions such as "Mortal Beauty" (2001) by director Markus Goller, "Berlin Calling" (2008) and "Global Player" (2013) by director Hannes Stöhr.
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Madhuri Dixit
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Madhuri Dixit (born Madhuri Shankar Dixit on May 15, 1967, in Mumbai, India) is a celebrated Indian actress and accomplished Kathak dancer who has appeared in over 70 Hindi films. Throughout the late 1980s and 1990s, she established herself as one of Bollywood's leading actresses, earning widespread acclaim for her talent, beauty, and exceptional dancing skills. Dixit is often cited by the media as one of the best actresses in Bollywood, appearing in numerous commercially successful films and receiving recognition for several of her performances.
She has won six Filmfare Awards, including four for Best Actress, one for Best Supporting Actress, and one Special Award. Dixit also holds the record for the highest number of Best Actress nominations at the Filmfare Awards, with 13. In 2008, she was honored with the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award, by the Government of India.
Known as the "Dhak Dhak Girl" of Bollywood, Madhuri's iconic films include Tezaab (1988), Dil (1990), Beta (1992), Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994), and Devdas (2002). In addition to her illustrious film career, she has served as a judge on popular dance reality shows and actively engages in philanthropic work, including advocacy for children's rights with UNICEF. Madhuri is married to Dr. Shriram Nene, a cardiovascular surgeon, and they have two sons.
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Campbell Grant
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Disney as an animator and story director for 12 years. He was also an expert on the rock paintings of the Chumash Indians of California. His work for Disney included animation on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, character designs for Pinocchio, the story development for the "Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria" segment of Fantasia, writer for the Goofy cartoon They're Off and the voice of Angus MacBadger in the "Wind in the Willows" segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad.-http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Campbell_Grant
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Marlène Grey
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Se llamaba Marlène Grey y era francesa. Su belleza fría y hierática distaba de la belleza típica española. Casada con El Hombre Autómata, la joven pareja llegó a España y actuó en el Circo Price y el teatro Maravillas, donde Marlène repetía el número de los leones, de los que se mantenía a salvo gracias al látigo del domador George Marck, con una dilatada experiencia en esas lides. El domador y Venus fueron contratados para Carne de fieras, e incluso dieron un papel secundario a El Hombre Autómata. En la cinta, la francesa, que se interpretaba a sí misma, consigue dejar el mundo del espectáculo gracias al amor de un boxeador que acaba de pedir el divorcio a su mujer, una vedette que le engañaba. Al finalizar el rodaje, en septiembre de 1936, los franceses dejaron España. Las noticias se pierden, aunque circulaban rumores de que, en 1939, uno de sus propios leones acabó con la vida de la artista circense . Un hecho del que no hay constancia en las historias generales del circo francés consultadas por Ríos Carratalá. El asunto no está claro: según cuenta Ferrán Alberich, restaurador del filme, hubo gente que se le acercó después del estreno que aseguraba haber visto a Marlène actuando en los años cuarenta en el norte de África.
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Josh Randall
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Josh Randall (born January 27, 1972) is an American television actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Mike Burton in the NBC sitcom Ed and the recurring guest role of Jake in Scrubs in 2005. He was married to Claire Rankin on 10 September 2000.
Josh has a brother Nathan and sister Joanna. His father died in 1997 of colon cancer and was commemorated shortly after by having the gym at Monterey High School (Monterey, California), named after him. That gym was where Josh played basketball and his father taught. (His father also taught Chemistry and Physics at Monterey High). Josh was co-Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper, The Galleon, his senior year.
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Michael Charrois
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Michael Charrois was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada May 24th, 1962. After studying Acting and Playwrighting at the University of Alberta and the Banff School of Fine Arts he was hired into the Resident Acting Company of Edmonton's Family Theatre, Stage Polaris in 1986. In 1986 he also began teaching Performing Arts classes at the Stage Polaris Academy of Drama. In 1988 Michael became a member of Canadian Actors' Equity Association. At this time, Michael was also street performing with fire juggling and clowning as well as gigging around town with his friends in a rock band called Big Inc. In the late 80's and throughout the 90's, Michael wrote lyrics for songs and musical plays for the stage for Big Inc. and his second band, Baffin Island Party, which culminated in Y2K's The Illumination of Marshall McLuhan. Michael played Wiggens in Clint Eastwood's 1992 Academy Award-winning film Unforgiven. This was also the year he became a member of ACTRA, the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists. While based in Edmonton in the 90's, festival performances took him throughout Western Canada, to Ottawa, and into the U.S. at the Orlando and New York Fringe Festivals.
In 1996 Michael was asked to serve his Union, first as a Councillor, then President and Alternate National Councillor for the now-defunct Edmonton ACTRA Branch. In the year 2000 Michael was asked to represent the Alberta New Democratic Party in the Castledowns riding for the Alberta provincial election. He finished in third place behind the Liberal and Conservative.
Like a character in a Chekhov play, Michael fulfilled the dream of every Edmontonian, by escaping winter with a move to Vancouver, September 2001. In 2002 he was cast in the first of over a dozen plays that he performed in at New Westminster's Burr Theatre. Throughout the early double aughts, Michael performed in plays and on screen, busked on Granville Island with his street show Economics 101, and ran around to various schools performing Mad Science experiments. Michael was asked to represent the New Democrats in his home riding of North Vancouver for the 2008 and 2012 federal elections. As of 2016, Michael is the Performing Arts Education Coordinator at the Evergeen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, BC, where he teaches public speaking and theatre arts. He also teaches for Burnaby's Shadbolt Arts Centre.
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Miguel Arteta
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Miguel Arteta (born August 29, 1965) is a Puerto Rican filmmaker known for his work in independent cinema and television. His film Chuck & Buck (2000) received the Independent Spirit Award for Best Feature made for under $500,000, while The Good Girl (2002) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was met with positive critical reception. In television, Arteta has directed episodes for series such as The Office, Succession, and Enlightened. His work on Succession earned him a Directors Guild of America Award nomination.
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John Badham
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John MacDonald Badham is an English-born American director of film and television, best known for the films Saturday Night Fever (1977), Blue Thunder (1983), WarGames (1983), Short Circuit (1986), and Stakeout (1987).
Badham worked in television for years, before his breakthrough in 1977 with Saturday Night Fever, a massive worldwide hit starring John Travolta. WarGames (1983), starring Matthew Broderick, is his other signature film, renowned for its take on popular Cold War fears of nuclear terror, and holocaust, as well as being one of the first films to deal with the subculture of amateur hacking.
In addition to his numerous film credits, Badham has also directed and produced for TV, including credits for Rod Serling's Night Gallery, and the A&E television series The Beast. He has also contributed commentary to the web series Trailers from Hell.
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AJ Raval
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AJ Raval is a Filipino actress, YouTuber, and social media star. Having the genes of such talented parents, AJ also sparked interest in the business. She has considered an upcoming star and has high expectations given her famous family. Before becoming an actress, AJ was a member of a girl group called The Fabulous Girlfriends when she was only 15 years old. She has starred in several movies under Viva Films and appeared in the first‑ever Philippine longest-running drama of all time "Ang Probinsyano."
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