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Nia Vardalos
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Antonia Eugenia "Nia" Vardalos (born September 24, 1962) is a Canadian-American actress, screenwriter, director, and producer. Her most notable work is the 2002 film My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which garnered her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical. She's also known for starring in the sequel My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and the TV series My Big Fat Greek Life.
She starred in the films Connie and Carla, My Life in Ruins, I Hate Valentine's Day, and Helicopter Mom. She starred on TV as Domino in Team Knight Rider and as Annie Spiro in Graves. She hosted The Great American Baking Show along with her then husband, actor Ian Gómez.
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Rick Malambri
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Rick Malambri (born November 7, 1982) is an American actor and model. He is the star of the movie Step Up 3D, released in theaters on August 6, 2010.
Malambri was born in Florida, to Jeannie Deckert and Tim Malambri. He began his career as a model, having been featured in Abercrombie and Fitch ads in 2004. Having moved to New York, Malambri was a featured model in clothing as well as a dancer. His acting career began with small roles in television episodes in 2007, and he moved to movies in 2010. Despite his nascent career, Rick has been selective of project roles taken on, noting that he strives to pick roles that will not pigeonhole him.
For the roll-out of Step Up 3D, Malambri has been featured in magazines such as Da Man (August/September 2010), and is now associated with K-Swiss sneakers.
Malambri married model/actress Lisa Mae in 2010.
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Amber Frank
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Amber Frank (born December 2, 1998), formerly known professionally as Amber Montana, is an American actress. She is known for her role as Taylor Hathaway in the Nickelodeon series The Haunted Hathaways and Left Behind: Vanished - Next Generation (2016). Amber is currently the lead character voice on the new hit show, Spirit Riding Free, on Netflix, as Lucky. She can also be seen in the recent film Destined To Ride starring along side of Denise Richards. Just this year Amber has been seen starring on the Lifetime TV hit movie, Party mom, starring along side of Krista Allen. Soon to be seen in the hit film, Ice Cream In The Cupboard based on the hit novel, alongside of Jaime King and Tobin Bell. Amber got her start at the age of 7 in the hit film , She Could Be you, displaying a powerful dramatic performance playing the real life role of missing child Jennifer Marteliz. Soon after she relocated with her family from Tampa Florida to Los Angeles and began working on several projects, including national commercials for ATT, Mattel, Intel, just to name few. She starred on the ABC tv show, Man Up, along side of Teri Polo,and also began singing and performing throughout the state. At the age of 13 after 6 months of a nation wide casting search Amber was cast as the leading role of Taylor Hathaway on the Nickelodeon channel .The show broke premiere records.Haunted Hathaways filmed nearly 50 episodes including two one hour specials and is still showing on the network. After filming for Nickelodeon Amber was cast as the leading character as Gabby Harlow to carry the powerful dramatic film, Vanished Left behind, along side of Dylan Sprayberry, Mason Dye, Tom Everett Scott, and Jackson Hurst. Amber can also be seen along side of Eva LA Rue in the dramatic film, A Killer Walks Amongst us, playing the edgy teenage daughter. With a multi talented ability proven in the voice over area, multi camera comedy, single camera comedy,drama, thriller,commercial, print,She is a proven value to work with. Amber also performs in shows around Los Angeles singing at events with her love for Jazz music, as Amy Winehouse has always been her musical love.
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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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Janice Rule
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Mary Janice Rule (August 15, 1931 – October 17, 2003) was an American actress and psychotherapist, earning her PhD while still acting, then acting occasionally while working in her new profession.
She was pictured on the cover of Life magazine on January 8, 1951, as being someone to watch in the entertainment industry.
Rule had a brief engagement to Farley Granger in 1956. Rule was briefly married, during 1955, to television and film writer N. Richard Nash. Her second marriage was to television and film writer Robert Thom in 1956; they had one daughter, Kate, before divorcing in 1961. Her last marriage was to actor Ben Gazzara in 1961, having one daughter together before their divorce in 1982.
During the 1960s she became interested in psychoanalysis. She began her formal studies in 1973, specializing in treating her fellow actors, and received her PhD 10 years later from the Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute in Los Angeles. She practiced in New York and Los Angeles, and continued to act occasionally until her death from a cerebral hemorrhage in 2003. She was cremated after her death. CLR
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Jiah Khan
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Jiah Khan was a British-American actress and singer who appeared in three Hindi films from 2007 to 2010.
Born in New York City and raised in London, she was the niece of actresses Sangeeta and Kaveeta. Khan always aspired to pursue a career in acting and moved to Mumbai for film career. She made her film debut in the 2007 Ram Gopal Verma film Nishabd for which she was nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut. She was later noted for portraying a modern, independent woman in Ghajini which was the highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2008. Her performance in the latter earned her significant acclaim. Her final film appearance was in Sajid Khan's romantic comedy Housefull, which was the fifth highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2010. Khan had catapulted herself into the Bollywood 100 Crore Club with Ghajini and Housefull.
On 3 June, 2013, she was found hanging from a ceiling fan in her bedroom of her family's residence at the Sagar Sangeet building in Juhu, Mumbai. Initially suspected a suicide, her mother later claimed that Khan was murdered by her boyfriend Sooraj Pancholi, after several inconsistencies and defensive marks were found. The investigation is ongoing, with the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) leading the charge.
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Daphna Awadish
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Daphna Awadish is an Israeli filmmaker and illustrator living in Amsterdam. She specializes in creating animated documentaries and works as an independent illustrator and animator. Her short films, "Journey Birds" and "Bear with Me," have won awards at international festivals, such as the Best Animation Award at the Jerusalem Film Festival, the Fantastic Award at the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film, and the European Values Award at AnimaSyros International Animation Festival.
Having lived in different countries herself, Daphna explores the meaning of 'home' in her work and just finished her new animated documentary Swimming With Wings. She uses mixed media to portray personal narratives in a unique and intimate manner. Daphna holds degrees from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (BA) and the St. Joost Master Institute of Visual Cultures (MA). She was a lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.
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Diana Ross
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Diana Ross (born March 26, 1944) is an American singer, actress, and record producer. Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Ross rose to fame as the lead singer of the vocal group the Supremes, which, during the 1960s, became Motown's most successful act, and are the best charting female group in US history, as well as one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. The group released a record-setting twelve number-one hit singles on the US Billboard Hot 100, including "Where Did Our Love Go", "Baby Love", "Come See About Me", "Stop! In the Name of Love", "You Can't Hurry Love", "You Keep Me Hangin' On", "Love Child", and "Someday We'll Be Together".
Following her departure from the Supremes in 1970, Ross released her eponymous debut solo album that same year, featuring the number-one Pop hit "Ain't No Mountain High Enough". She later released the album Touch Me in the Morning in 1973; its title track reached number 1, as her second solo No. 1 hit. She continued a successful solo career through the 1970s, which included hit albums like Mahogany and Diana Ross and their number-one hit singles, "Theme from Mahogany" and "Love Hangover", respectively. Her 1980 album Diana produced another number-one single, "Upside Down", as well as the international hit "I'm Coming Out". Ross' final single with Motown during her initial run with the company achieved her sixth and final US number-one Pop hit, the duet "Endless Love" featuring Lionel Richie, whose solo career was launched with its success.
Ross has also ventured into acting, with a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award–nominated performance for her performance in the film Lady Sings the Blues (1972); she recorded its soundtrack, which became a number-one hit. She also starred in two other feature films, Mahogany (1975) and The Wiz (1978), later acting in the television films Out of Darkness (1994), for which she also was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, and Double Platinum (1999).
Ross was named the "Female Entertainer of the Century" by Billboard magazine. In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records declared Ross the most successful female music artist in history, due to her success in the United States and United Kingdom for having more hits than any female artist in the charts, with a career total of 70 hit singles with her work with the Supremes and as a solo artist. In 1988, Ross was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as member of the Supremes, alongside Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard. She was the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016.
She is a 12-time Grammy nominee, never earning a competitive honor, but later became the recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. In December 2016, Billboard magazine named her the 50th most successful dance artist of all time. In Billboard magazine's Greatest of All Time Hot 100 Artists chart, she ranked 16th as the lead singer of the Supremes and 26th as a solo artist. In December 2018, Diana Ross consolidated her status as a dance diva by ranking #3 in the Billboard Dance Club Songs Artists year-end chart.
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AngelaBaby
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Angelababy (English name: Angela; birth name: Yang Ying) is a Chinese model, actress, and singer born in Shanghai to a Shanghainese mother and a father from Hong Kong, who is of half German and half Chinese descent. She is one of the "New Four Dan Actresses". Her father runs a fashion business in Shanghai. She gained an interest in fashion as a child under her father's influence.
Angelababy moved to Hong Kong when she was thirteen, and signed a modelling contract with Style International Management at the age of 14. She speaks English, Mandarin, Shanghainese, Japanese, and Cantonese.
Angelababy dated Chinese actor Huang Xiao Ming, who is 11 years her senior, for six years, but their relationship was not revealed to the public until February 2014. On 27 May 2015, they obtained their marriage certificate in Qingdao, China, and their wedding banquet took place in Shanghai on 8 October 2015. The wedding banquet was reported to be one of the most lavish in China's history with a reported estimate of US$31 million. In October 2016, Huang and Angelababy announced her pregnancy. She gave birth to their son on 17 January 2017 at the Hong Kong Adventist Hospital. On 28 January 2022, the couple announced their divorce.
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André Ekyan
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André Ekyan (born André Echkyan, October 24, 1907, Meudon - August 1972, Alicante, Spain) was a French jazz reedist.
Ekyan was the leader of a jazz ensemble at the club Le Perroquet in Paris late in the 1920s. in the 1930s, he played with Jack Hylton, Gregor, and Tommy Dorsey, and recorded with Django Reinhardt for several years. Other associations include work with Tommy Benford, Jacques Butler, Benny Carter, Frank Goudie, Coleman Hawkins, Mezz Mezzrow, Bobby Nichols, Joe Turner, and Ray Ventura.
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