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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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Georges Payot

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In the 1960s, mountaineering became more and more technical and committed, the great ascents of this period were most often made by ropes of guides without clients. Distant expeditions are gradually becoming widespread. Georges Payot, originally from Chamonix, will be among the most active protagonists in the valley but also abroad. He was born in 1941, became a guide at the age of 20, and embarked on a career as a teacher at ENSA for several decades. Hyperactive and gifted, he made many openings: the first winter of the coveted north face of Les Drus in 1964, with Gérard Devouassoux and Yvon Masino; first of the Central Spur at the Aiguille Verte in 1962, with Martin, Contamine and Labrunie. He will also make high-flying ascents in the Himalayas: Ama Dablam, Annapurnna, Everest... Rescue being essentially organized by guides at the time, he led the search during the Kangchenjunga crash on January 24, 1966, 16 years after the crash of the Malabar Princess, belonging to the same company: Air India. The height of fate, his father, René Payot, died of an avalanche while rescuing during this first accident. A descendant of the large Payot family, Georges is to the Compagnie des Guides what the mountains are to Chamonix: inseparable.
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Guillermina Grin

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Guillermina Green (1922–2006), also known as Guillermina Grin, was a Spanish film actress. She appeared in twenty three films including The Butterfly That Flew Over the Sea (1948). She was born in Seville, to a Spanish mother and an English father William Green an optician who worked in the city. In 1941 she was spotted by the film director Florian Rey and given a small part in one of his films. She graduated to leading lady status, and starred in Spanish films during the decade. She later emigrated to Mexico, but retired from acting in 1951 following her marriage to producer Guillermo Calderon.
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Shuri Nakamura

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Nakamura Shuri is a Japanese actress and an idol. She belongs to Ota Production. In 2016, when she was in the first year of junior high school, she was enrolled as a scholarship student at Watanabe Entertainment's training center. One year later, she started studying to be an actress as a 6th generation member of "Actress Incubation (AI)," sponsored by Drama Design. She made her acting debut at the age of 14 in the play "Kiyorakana Mizu no Yo ni ~ Watashitachi no 1945 ~" in July 2017. In December of the same year, she debuted as an idol in the idol unit "Love Cocchi." In September of 2018, she made her first movie appearance in the movie "Kakuga, Mama" and won the Best Actress Award for it at the movie festival "MOOSIC LAB 2018". Nakamura Shuri is a former 1st Generation member of Last Idol and its unit, Love Cocchi. She graduated from the groups on December 29, 2020.
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Jessie Barr

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Jessie Barr is a filmmaker and Sundance Fellow based in Los, Angeles. She is a writer, director, actor, and producer with a background in independent film and theater. SOPHIE JONES her critically acclaimed debut feature which she directed, co-wrote, and produced is executive produced by Nicole Holofcener. SOPHIE JONES premiered in competition at the 2020 Deauville Film Festival, screened in competition at Mar del Plata, and played numerous festivals around the world before it was acquired and released by Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2021. Sophie Jones holds a 100% rating on RottenTomatoes. Jessie is a two-time 2020 Sundance Fellow and with the support of the Sundance Episodic Lab and Episodic Makers Lab developed her original series FANTASIA FOR YOU with co-writer/co-star Lena Hudson inspired by their award-winning short film TOO LONG AT THE FAIR. TOO LONG AT THE FAIR, as well as Jessie’s award-winning original series OM CITY, have been lauded at film festivals around the world including the Tribeca Film Festival, Manchester Film Festival, and San Diego International Film Festival, among others. She has been featured by Variety, the National Board of Review, and TalkHouse. Jessie can be seen next co-starring in THE BESTA TEST released Nov. 5th by IFC Films. She is a proud member of FREE THE WORK and Film Fatales. Currently, she is writing her second feature film which she will also direct.
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Adam Sandler

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Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995, before going on to star in many Hollywood films, which have combined to earn more than $2 billion at the box office. Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a further four-movie deal with Netflix worth over $250 million. Sandler's comedic roles include Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (1998), The Wedding Singer (1998), Big Daddy (1999), Mr. Deeds (2002), 50 First Dates (2004), The Longest Yard (2005), Click (2006), Grown Ups (2010), Just Go with It (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Blended (2014), Murder Mystery (2019) and Hubie Halloween (2020). He also voiced Davey, Whitey, and Eleanore in Eight Crazy Nights and Dracula in the first three films of the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2018). While some of his comedic films, including Jack and Jill (2011), have been panned, resulting in Sandler receiving nine Golden Raspberry Awards and 37 Raspberry Award nominations, more than any actor other than Sylvester Stallone, he has received critical acclaim for his dramatic performances in the dramedy films Spanglish (2004), Reign Over Me (2007), and Funny People (2009). He has also been roundly praised for his leading roles in auteur films including Punch-Drunk Love (2002) by Paul Thomas Anderson, Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and the Safdie brothers' Uncut Gems (2019), the last of which earned him the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.
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Jef Hellemans

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Jef Hellemans (b. 1999) studied Drama at the School of Arts / KASK Gent from which he graduated in 2022. He was one of the 24 male actors in the performance Odysseus, een zwerver komt thuis, a production by KVS & NTGent directed by Michael De Cock. He also performed with DESCHONECOMPANIE in Le Nozze and with De Nwe Tijd & Het Paleis in Familie grr. At Theater Aan Zee (2022) he will be presenting his graduation performance Pinokkio which he created together with Jonas Baeke. For camera he appeared in 2018 in one of the leading roles in the TV drama Over water, a series by Tom Lenaerts and Norman Bates. In 2021 he could be seen in the English TV series The Window. In 2023 he will be performing in Knokke-Off (a series for Netflix & VRT) and playing a leading role in Kartonnen Dozen (a filming of a book by Tom Lanoye).
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Fernando Poe Jr.

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Ronald Allan Kelley Poe (August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004), better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King, was a Filipino actor. During the latter part of his career, Poe was defeated by incumbent President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the 2004 Philippine Presidential elections, a result roundly believed to have been fraudulent. His long career as an action film star earned him the moniker "King of Philippine Movies" (often shortened to Da King). Poe was posthumously declared a National Artist of the Philippines for Film on 23 May 2006 by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The award was confirmed by President Benigno Aquino III on 20 July 2012, and was presented to his family on 16 August. Ronald Allan K. Poe was the son of Filipino actor Allan Fernando R. Poe (Fernando Poe, Sr.) and Elizabeth Kelley, an American. He was born in San Carlos City, Pangasinan. His parents were not yet legally married when he was born on August 20, 1939, although his parents were later married in 1940. His opponents tried to derail his bid for the presidency when they sought to disqualify him as an illegitimate son of a non-Filipino mother. He was the second among six siblings and it was his brother Andy who was really named Fernando Poe, Jr. which FPJ later adopted, to bank on the popularity of his father who was a top actor in his time. Conrad Poe, a Filipino actor is FPJ's half-brother, the illegitimate son of the late Fernando Poe Sr. and actress Patricia Mijares. Pou is the original spelling of the family's surname from his grandfather, playwright Lorenzo Pou, a Catalan migrant from Majorca, Spain, who ventured into mining and business in the Philippines.
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Heikki Kinnunen

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Heikki Kinnunen (born 8 April 1946, in Raahe) is a Finnish actor, who became well known in the beginning of the 1970s in the comedy program Ällitälli. Kinnunen was known specially for his roles in comedy films and -series. He has played the leading role in Vääpeli Körmy films and appeared in five Uuno Turhapuro films. Kinnunen's most famous comedic catch-phrase is "Onks Viljoo näkyny?" ("You seen Viljo?") born from a skit in which he shows up asking people this question then inquiring something about what they are currently doing. Who Viljo is or why Kinnunen's character is looking for him is never explained in the skits themselves. Source: Article "Heikki Kinnunen" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Tamannaah Bhatia

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Tamannaah Bhatia also known as Tamannaah, is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Telugu and Tamil films. She has also appeared in Hindi films. In addition to acting, she also participates in stage shows and is a prominent celebrity endorser for brands and products. In 2005, she made her acting debut in the age of 15 in the Bollywood film, Chand Sa Roshan Chehra and appeared in Abhijeet Sawant album song "Lafzon main" from the album Aapka Abhijeet which was also released in the year 2005, before working in Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema. In the same year, Tamannaah made her Telugu film debut in Sri, and the next year she appeared in her first Tamil movie, Kedi. In 2007, she starred in two college-life-based drama films, Happy Days in Telugu and Kalloori in Tamil. Her projects include the Tamil films Ayan (2009), Paiyaa (2010), Sura (2010) and Siruthai (2011), Veeram (2014) and Telugu films include 100% Love (2011). Other films include Racha (2012), Thadaka (2013), Baahubali: The Beginning (2015), Bengal Tiger (2015) and Oopiri (2016). She thus established herself as one of the leading contemporary actresses in Telugu cinema and Tamil cinema. Tamannaah has acted with major actors including Ajith Kumar, Vijay, Surya, Karthi, Dhanush, Jayam Ravi, Arya, Pawan Kalyan, Mahesh Babu, Nagarjuna, Allu Arjun, Ramcharan, Jr.Ntr, Ravi Teja, Prabhas, Saif Ali Khan, Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Ranveer Singh. She is one of the highest paid actresses in South Indian cinema. She is the first actress in India who was nominated at Saturn Awards (for Best Supporting Actress) but Lost to Jessica Chastain for Crimson Peak. Tamannaah received the Kalaimamani Award in 2010 from the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu.
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