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Lautaro Murúa
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Lautaro Murúa (Spanish pronunciation: [lauˈtaɾo muˈɾu.a]; 29 December 1926 Tacna, Chile - 3 December 1995 in Madrid) was a Chilean-born Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter.
Born in Chile, Murúa moved to Argentina at the beginning of the fifties. He studied architecture and fine arts before entering the film industry. He worked primarily as an actor and appeared in over 80 films between 1949 and his death in 1995 although he also directed a handful of important films such as Shunko, Alias Gardelito and La Raulito, all with stories usually revolving around social topics.
As an actor, Murúa participated in the 1960s film industry revival, acting in the movies of Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Rodolfo Kuhn, Manuel Antín and David José Kohon.
He left to live in Spain for political reasons in the 1970s, and then he returned to Argentina to film several movies until sickness set in and he died in Spain in 1995.
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Ara Mina
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Hazel Pascual Reyes (born on May 9, 1979 in Manila, Philippines), better known by her screen name, Ara Mina, is a Filipina actress, fashion model and singer. She won the Golden Screen Award in 2004 for Best Actress in a drama in the Philippines for her role as Luna in Minsan Pa. The Filipino Express said "Ara Mina's role in this Jeffrey Jeturian film actually lies in the borderline of lead and supporting actress. Although she is the leading lady of Jomari Yllana and is, in fact, billed alongside his name, her character is basically secondary to the flow of the story (her first scene, in fact, comes much later in the movie). But whether lead or support, Ara Mina had already proven her worth as an actress in films like Mano Po 2 and Huling Birhen sa Lupa--the two films that had already given her acting trophies in the past. In Minsan Pa, she delivers another fine performance that is worth of more acting awards She is the daughter of Chuck Mathay, a former Philippine congressman from Quezon City. Her half-sister Cristine Reyes is also an actress with ABS-CBN.
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David Paetkau
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David Paetkau is a Canadian-American actor who is perhaps best known for his roles of Evan Lewis in Final Destination 2 and the deceased Beck McKaye in Whistler (2006–2008). He has also appeared in I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) and also So Weird as Brent on the episode Vampire.
He currently stars as Sam Braddock in Flashpoint, a TV police drama filmed in and around Toronto by CTV. The series also airs in the USA on CBS on Friday nights. After a successful trial run in the summer of 2008, CBS ordered a full 22 episode second season of Flashpoint in its current Friday night time, where it has earned solid ratings. The series also stars Enrico Colantoni, Hugh Dillon, and Amy Jo Johnson.
David's voice can be heard in Canadian commercials for the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze.
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Dane Porret
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Il est né en Suisse avec le virus de la comédie. Il poursuit des études qui courent trop vite pour lui, mais obtient malgré tout un diplôme de prof de dessin aux Beaux-Arts de Lausanne. Décidé de brûler les planches, il se dirige résolument vers Paris. Il se jette dans la bagarre et, en touche- à- tout +passionné … il touche à tout passionnément.
Son premier one man show suivi de ses nombreux descendants …jusqu’à aujourd’hui, le font tourner dans toute la francophonie jusqu’à Tahiti !.. Il aura même le grand frisson, en se posant sur la scène mythique de l’Olympia !
Le cinéma : Varda, Demy, Jugnot… la pub : l’inoubliable « Baygon vert et jaune » …crr crr bzz bzz … « Ba..ba ba..Bababybel »…La télé avec Philippe Bouvard (encore un !..) Patrick Sébastien…Les cabarets-music-hall « le Don camilo » ou il partage le plateau avec Laurent Gerra, Pascal Brunner, Bernard Mabille et Laurent Ruquier entre autres.
Le théâtre : il tourne avec son ami Smaïn mis en scène par son autre « vieux » copain Pascal Légitimus… les voix… doublages, bref, tout ce qu’on fait quand on est tombé dans ce drôle de métier !
Actuellement, il présente et joue des extraits de son one man show dans la revue du Carrousel de Paris !..
Cet assoiffé d’aventure n’a pas fini de nous étonner !… Si vous avez un coup de blues et qu’il passe près de chez vous, n’hésitez pas, oubliez votre « Lexomil » et payez vous une bonne dose de DANE PORRET !
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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.
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Edwige Fenech
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Fenech was born in Bône (now Annaba), in French Algeria to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. From the late 1960s to early 1980s, Fenech starred in many types of European movies. She is best known for her erotic comedies, and began to work in that field in the late 1960s with Austrian director Franz Antel. Fenech also achieved fame with giallo and sex films such as Five Dolls for an August Moon, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and Sex with a Smile, many of which were directed by Sergio Martino.
In the 1980s, she became a television personality, typically appearing with Barbara Bouchet on a chat show on Italian television. In the mid-1990s, she was engaged to the well-known Italian industrialist Luca di Montezemolo.
After many years of work in movie production (she produced, among others, The Merchant of Venice, 2004, with Al Pacino), Fenech accepted Quentin Tarantino's offer to star in another movie, Hostel: Part II (2007), directed by Eli Roth. A British general named Ed Fenech (played by Mike Myers) is a character in Tarantino's 2009 film Inglourious Basterds.
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Adrienne Corri
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Adrienne Corri (born 13 November 1930 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is an actress of Italian parentage.
She is probably best known for her role as the rape victim Mrs. Alexander in the 1971 Stanley Kubrick film A Clockwork Orange, and for her appearances as Valerie in Jean Renoir's The River (1951) and as Lara's mother in David Lean's Dr. Zhivago (1965). She appeared in many horror and suspense films in the 1950s until the 1970s including Devil Girl from Mars, The Tell-Tale Heart, A Study in Terror and Vampire Circus. She also appeared as Therese Duval in Revenge of the Pink Panther. She also was in the 1969 science fiction movie Moon Zero Two and in the 1969 Twelfth Night, directed by John Sichel, as the Countess Olivia opposite Alec Guinness as Malvolio.
Her numerous television credits include Angelica in Sword of Freedom (1958), a regular role in A Family At War and You're Only Young Twice, a 1971 television play by Jack Trevor Story, as Mena in the Doctor Who story "The Leisure Hive" and guest starred as the mariticidal Liz Newton in the UFO episode "The Square Triangle".
She had a major stage career. There is a story that, when the audience booed on the first night of John Osborne's The World Of Paul Slickey, Corri responded with her own abuse: she raised two fingers to the audience and shouted "Go fuck yourselves".
Corri has married and divorced twice, to the actors Daniel Massey (1961-1967) and Derek Fowlds.
Her book The Search for Gainsborough (Jonathan Cape: 1984) contained much original research, including examination of banking records, and made a plausible case for 1726 as his birth year.
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Ian Bogost
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ian Bogost is a video game designer, critic and researcher. He is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a founding partner at Persuasive Games. His research and writing consider video games as an expressive medium, and his creative practice focuses on games about social and political issues, including airport security, consumer debt, disaffected workers, the petroleum industry, suburban errands, pandemic flu and tort reform.
He is the author of Unit Operations: An Approach to Videogame Criticism and Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames as well as the co-author of Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System and Newsgames: Journalism at Play. Bogost also recently released Cow Clicker, a satire and critique of the influx of social network games.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and comparative literature from the University of Southern California and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in comparative literature from UCLA. He lives in Atlanta.
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Lone Hertz
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Lone Hertz er datter af grosserer Kay Bernhard Hertz (1908 - 2001) og hustru Arnolda Nielsine Viola Gress Aistrup (1911 - 1998). Som barn var hun i tre år balletbarn på Det Kongelige Teaters balletskole. Sammen med Kirsten Andersen, Bjarne Kitter og Mads Højgaard var hun datidens filmbørn og turnerede også med Solby Scenen. Hun indspillede også grammofonplader med "Fisken Osvald", "Swingprinsessen" og "Skovhusets skumle skikkelser". Og hun debuterede på Det Kongelige Teater i 1949 som Lille Sarah i "Indenfor murene". Hun forlod gymnasiet som 17-årig for at starte som Lommer-pige og debuterede i december 1956 på ABC-Teatret i en revy med Kjeld Petersen og Dirch Passer. Hun havde en lille skønsang og skulle i øvrigt bare gå ud og ind i trusser og se dejlig ud. Det blev til fem år som Lommerpige på ABC-Teatret i årene 1956-1961. Det var både en lykkelig og broget affære, som bl. a. førte til sønnen Steen Stig Lommer som hun fik sammen med teaterdirektør Stig Lommer (19-06-1907 - 28-06-1976). I 1958 fik hun sin karrierens største fiasko som Polly i "Laser og pjalter" på Aveny Teatret, hvor hun siden var ansat fra 1961 til 1965. Hun blev uddannet på Privatteatrenes elevskole 1960-61. Lone Hertz optrådte i "Lulus Lysthus" i Gilleleje med Volmer-Sørensens "Solskinsvise". Sit store gennembrud som skuespiller fik hun i 1964 som Hedvig i "Vildanden" på Aalborg Teater. Hun havde siden roller f.eks. som Jane i "Udviklinger", Nora i "Et dukkehjem" på Folketeatret, Jeanne d'Arc i "Lærken", Hilde i "Bygmester Solness", Rosalinde i "Som man behager" og kvinden i "Århundredets kærlighedseventyr". Hun var ansat ved Det Kongelige Teater 1968-73 samt i 1975 og spillede her bl.a. Ellen i "Skærmydsler" og Agnes i "Fruentimmerskolen". Hun vakte opmærksohed med nøgenscener i "Vidunderlige kælling" i 1975. På TV fik hun roller som dramatisk skuespillerinde i Ionescos ”Enetime” og Genets ”Stuepigerne”. Og indenfor cabaretgenren optrådte hun på sin bror Tony Rodian's cabaret. Hendes første filmroller var som barnestjerne i "Hold fingrene fra mor" og "Vores fjerde far". Hun huskes for rollen som Tine i filmen af samme navn, som gav hende en Bodil. Det var under optagelser til denne, at hun – på sin 25 års fødselsdag – fik Clara Pontoppidans fødselsdagslegat for at være en af de mest talentfulde unge danske skuespillerinder. Desuden havde hun bl.a. tiltelrollen i operettefilmen "Frk. Nitouche" og rollen som Klara i "Sommer i Tyrol". I årene 1962 til 1975 levede hun sammen med skuespilleren Axel Strøbye. Sammen fik de datteren Micaëla og sønnen Tomas. Noget af det, der har vendt op og ned på hendes liv, var, da hun i 1966 blev mor til sin udviklingshæmmede søn Tomas Strøbye (20-02-1966). Han udviklede sig aldrig til et normalt fungerende menneske med talesprog og evner for at leve livet som andre normale mennesker. I årene derefter viste hun sig offentligt som en mor, der kæmpede med liv og sjæl for at bedre vilkårene for udviklingsmæssigt handicappede og deres familier. I 1981 lavede hun filmen om "Tomas, et barn du ikke kan nå" og hun skrev bogen "Sisyfosbreve". Fra 1978 dannede hun par med ingeniør, direktør Sven Erik Lindhardt (24-05-1942). I slutningen af 1970erne begyndte hun på et universitetsstudium og i 1980 valgte hun at forlade rampelyset for sammen med Malene Schwarz at blive direktør for Bristol Teatret indtil 1982 og Aveny Teatret 1982-1984. I 1984 blev hun rektor på Statens Teaterskole, hvilken stilling hun bestred indtil 1990. På Statens Teaterskole fik hun indført det fjerde uddannelsesår for skuespillere, instruktører og scenografer. I årene 1988-91 var hun medlem af Teaterrådet. Ved 1990ernes begyndelse sagde hun teatret og filmen farvel. I 1993 og 94 indtalte hun Det Nye Testamente for Det Danske Bibelselskab og Danmarks Radio. Og hun begyndte at tage ud i forsamlingshuse, menighedshuse, kirkesale og biblioteker, hvor hun holdt foredrag og bibeloplæsninger. I 1965 blev hun kåret som Århus Studenternes Æreskunstner og allerede før hun fyldte 30, var hun blevet belønnet med både Teaterpokalen i 1965 og Henkel-Prisen i 1967. Udover Bodil-prisen for hovedrollen i "Tine" fik hun en Bodil i 1967 for hovedrollen i "Utro" samt en Bodil som instruktør for sin dokumentarfilm "Tomas - et barn du ikke kan nå". Hun er søster til skuespillerinden Helle Hertz og kabaret-kunstneren Tony Rodian.
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Jenova Chen
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Xinghan Chen ( pinyin: Chén Xīnghàn), known as Jenova Chen, is the designer of the award-winning games Cloud, Flow, and Flower, and is co-founder of Thatgamecompany. Chen is from Shanghai, where he earned a bachelors degree in computer science and a minor in digital art and design. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he got a master's degree from the University of Southern California's Interactive Media Division. While there he created Cloud and Flow, and met fellow student Kellee Santiago. After a brief period at Maxis working on Spore, he founded Thatgamecompany with Santiago and became the company's creative director. The company signed a three-game deal with Sony Computer Entertainment, and has sold Flow and Flower through the PlayStation Network. Chen and Thatgamecompany are currently working on Journey, their third game for Sony.
As Chen was born in one culture and lives in another, he chooses to try to make games that appeal universally to all people. His goal with his games and Thatgamecompany in general is to try to help video games mature as a medium by making games that inspire emotional responses in the player that other games are lacking. Although he and Thatgamecompany can and have made more traditional games, he does not plan on commercially developing any of them, as he does not think that it fits with their goals as an independent video game developer.
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