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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 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Alan King

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Alan King (born 3 November 1969) is an Australian actor, director, and writer who has performed on stage, film and television for over 30 years. Also an accomplished painter, King completed his Bachelor of Fine Art (major in painting) from the prestigious fine art school, The Victorian College of the Arts in 2006. Following art school, he found himself gravitating to the medium of filmmaking, relishing the opportunity to amalgamate both his performance and fine art skills. In 2013 King formed his production company White Cube Picture Lab with a mission to create intimate, avant-garde storytelling for the screen. Tending to work outside conventional filmmaking frameworks, King is a true maverick, often performing multiple roles on a single project from director, cinematographer, sound designer, editor and actor.
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Chuck Daniel

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Charles Edward Daniel was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly for the Detroit Tigers during the 1957 season. Listed at 6 ft 2 in, 195., Daniel batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Bluffton, Arkansas. Daniel was a major league player whose career, statistically speaking, was only slightly different from that of Moonlight Graham. On September 21, 1957 Daniel faced the Kansas City Athletics as a second-inning replacement for starter Jim Bunning, giving up two runs, three hits and no walks to go with a pair of strikeouts. In 2⅓ innings of work he posted a 7.71 ERA and never appeared in a major league game again.He is married to Rita Daniel. He is the father to Robin Daniel, Denise Baker, and Thomas Daniel. He is also a grandfather to Jessica Christianson, Hunter Daniel, Page Daniel, Austin Baker, Nathan Baker, Cameron Baker, Keaton Baker, Anna Daniel, Charles Daniel, and Melanie Daniel. He is also a great-grandfather to Rita Christianson. Daniel died in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas at age 74.
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Raymond Michael Brendli

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Michael "Mike" S. Brendli is an American professional wrestler, working for Ring of Honor. He is best known by his ring name Mike Mondo and for his time as Spirit Squad member Mikey in WWE. After training at the Critical Mass Wrestling School, he debuted in June 2002 and began working for several independent promotions as Mike Mondo, Livewyre, or El Livewyre. His earliest success came in the New York Wrestling Connectionpromotion, where he won the NYWC Heavyweight Championship on two occasions between 2003 and 2005. In February 2005, he signed a contract with WWE, and was assigned to the Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW) developmental territory. In OVW, he formed the Spirit Squad faction with four other wrestlers. The Spirit Squad debuted on the Raw brand in January 2006, and quickly won the World Tag Team Championship in April. They held the championship for seven months, before losing it in early November. They were taken off television in late 2006. He returned to OVW in 2007, before being moved to the Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW) territory in September. He competed in FCW until his WWE release in June 2008. He then returned to the independent circuit, and later returned to OVW, where he won both the OVW Television Championship and the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship in 2009. He went on to win the OVW Heavyweight Championship for the first time in mid-2010 and the second time in early 2011.
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Cleo Rocos

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Born in Brazil to an English mother and Greek father, Cleo Rocos shot to fame in the 1980s with the BBC series The Kenny Everett Television Show. Her glamorous and curvaceous figure was often used to comic effect and she proved the perfect foil to Kenny, appearing alongside him in the science quiz series Brainstorm, playing a white-coated lab assistant in 1988 and his film Bloodbath at the House of Death in 1984. Since Everett's death from AIDS in 1995, Rocos has published her memoir about working with him, Bananas Forever - Kenny and Me and appeared in several celebrity reality TV productions. She is also a producer, travel journalist, radio DJ, presenter and a businesswoman, launching her own premium brand of tequila called AquaRiva in 2012, made from 100% 'Weber Azul' agave
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Justin Matthews

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Justin Matthews is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. While studying neuroscience at the University of Southern California, he simultaneously found early commercial success with acting, starting his foray into entertainment. Quickly migrating from acting to writing, Justin has already worked with some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. He spent most of his early writing career in television, even receiving a WGA nomination for his writing contribution on Apple TV’s “The Morning Show” starring Jennifer Aniston, Reece Witherspoon, Steve Carell, and Jon Hamm. More recently, Justin co-wrote Amazon Studio’s Rom-Com “Upgraded” starring Marisa Tomei and Camila Mendes.
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Dr. Contessa Metcalfe

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Dr. Contessa Metcalfe (born June 4, 1976) is a family medicine specialist, entrepreneur and TV personality. She is married to Dr. Walter Scott Metcalfe. She is known as a cast member on Bravo's reality series Married to Medicine (2013), and Married to Medicine: Los Angeles (2019). She attended Xavier University of Louisiana where she earned her undergraduate degree in psychology/pre-medicine. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, she answered her call to patriotism and decided to join the Navy. The Navy taught her to fly and allowed her to travel the world as a flight surgeon. She completed her residency training at the National Naval Medical Center and Meharry Medical College. She owns Chastain Integrative Medicine, located in the prestigious Buckhead region of Atlanta where she specializes in medical aesthetics, preventive, occupational and addiction medicine. She is also co-owner of Haute’ Doc Nutraceuticals, a supplier of high-quality vitamins and supplements. In addition to being a successful entrepreneur, she also works as a pharmacovigilance physician for a major pharmaceutical company.
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Brian Jeon

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Brian Jeon is a Korean actor who was born in Seoul, South Korea and later moved to Los Angeles, United States when he was 7 years old. While living in Korea, Brian's neighborhood was one of the popular sites for filming so he and his family would sometimes encounter film crews in action or watch his neighborhood come out on the television screen. When he turned 21, he decided to move to Davis, CA to attend University of California, Davis with the goal of majoring in sociology while minoring in film studies. While at University of California Davis, Brian became part of Davis Filmmaking Society in order to start his film journey. After graduating, he decided to stay in northern California to pursue his film journey across the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Modesto.
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Zhuo Wen

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Wen Zhuo is a Chinese actor and director born in Jilin Province and graduated from Tongji University. He officially entered showbiz in 2012 with his lead role in the scifi drama "Battle Strike Team: Giant Saver". In February 2014, Wen made his debut in the music circle with the release of his first solo single "Make You Beautiful". In 2015, he became well-known for his role Li Xiaoyao in the stage play "Legend of the Sword and Fairy". The public welfare micro-film "Transmitting the Chinese Dream Long Love" starring Wen Zhuo, won Beijing Outstanding Network Audiovisual Program Audiovisual Public Welfare Award. In 2017, he won the most popular actor award in the online film unit of Asian New Media Film Festival for his role as the magic stick Su Yang in the fantasy film "The Soul of the Soul Hunter".
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Kanaphan Puitrakul

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First Kanaphan Puitrakul is an actor born in Bangkok, Thailand. He completed his secondary education in Suankularb Wittayalai School. In 2021, he graduated from the College of Social Communication Innovation at Srinakharinwirot University with a bachelor's degree in Cyber Business Management. He started his acting career after auditioning from a pool of 100 teenagers and got the main role for The Assassin: ฆาตกร, a movie produced for Children's Day in 2016. In 2017, he participated in the "Cool Man Good Man" competition where he placed fourth and became part of KAZZ Magazine's photoshoot in November 2017. He was then tapped by KA Cosmetics, together with Poompat Iam-samang (Up), for a yaoi television advertisement which later on became viral. Since then First is an artist under GMMTV where has played in notable roles in multiple dramas including "Wolf", "Blacklist", "The Shipper,” “Not Me,” and “The Eclipse.”
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