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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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Bobbie Gentry
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Bobbie Lee Gentry (born Roberta Lee Streeter; July 27, 1942) is an American singer-songwriter who was one of the first female artists to compose and produce her own material.
Gentry rose to international fame with her intriguing southern gothic narrative "Ode to Billie Joe" in 1967. The track spent four weeks as the No. 1 pop song on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was fourth in the Billboard year-end chart of 1967, earning Gentry Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1968.
Gentry charted 11 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and four singles on the United Kingdom Top 40. Her album Fancy brought her a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. After her first albums, she had a successful run of variety shows on the Las Vegas Strip. In the late 1970s Gentry lost interest in performing.
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Miwa Kawagoe
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Miwa Kawagoe (川越美和) is a former Japanese pop singer, actress, and member 1950 of the gravure group Momoco Club.
Kawagoe Miwa first debuted as a idol singer on October 1988 with the single "Looking at You". Her fourth single, "Yume Dake Miteru", won her the Rookie of the Year award at the 31st Annual Nihon Record Taishou. At the same she debut as a singer, she debut as a variety show talent and an actress with her first drama being Jiken desu yo Heisei Gannen.
In the 1990s, Kawagoe Miwa briefly appeared under the name Hatause Kaoru. She continued to work in many doramas and movies until 2007 when she quit her agency and retired from the world of show business.
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Harve Presnell
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Harve Presnell (September 14, 1933 – June 30, 2009) was an American actor and singer. He began his career in the mid 1950s as a classical baritone, singing with orchestras and opera companies throughout the United States. His career reoriented away from classical music to musical theatre in 1960 after Meredith Willson cast him in the lead role of his new Broadway musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown. His portrayal of "Leadville Johnny" was a resounding success and he reprised the role in the 1964 film version of the musical, winning a Golden Globe Award for his portrayal.
Presnell went on to star in a few more films during the 1960s, but by the early 1970s that aspect of his career came to a standstill. From 1970 to 1995 he mostly worked as a musical theatre performer on Broadway, the West End, and in touring productions out of New York. In his early 60s, Presnell saw a resurgence in his movie career which lasted until his death. He portrayed character roles in films like Fargo (1996), Saving Private Ryan (1998), and Flags of Our Fathers (2006). He also appeared on television as Mr. Parker in The Pretender and Lew Staziak in Andy Barker, P.I.. He had recurring roles on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Dawson's Creek.
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Charles Officer
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Charles Officer (1975 – 2023) was a Canadian film and television director, writer, actor, and professional hockey player. His diverse career encompassed graphic design, acting on stage and screen, and eventually directing. His debut short film, "When Morning Comes," premiered at the 2000 Toronto International Film Festival to widespread acclaim. Following this success, his second film, "Short Hymn_Silent War," premiered at TIFF 2002, earning a Special Jury Citation and a subsequent nomination for a Genie Award in 2004. "Nurse.Fighter.Boy," his first feature film, was shot over 23 days in Toronto. Officer's multifaceted journey in the arts sadly concluded when he passed away in Toronto at the age of 48.
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Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1922 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. A Marxist, he developed a variant of this communist ideology known as Leninism.
Born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk, Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother's 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire's Tsarist government, he devoted the following years to a law degree. He moved to Saint Petersburg in 1893 and became a senior Marxist activist. In 1897, he was arrested for sedition and exiled to Shushenskoye for three years, where he married Nadezhda Krupskaya. After his exile, he moved to Western Europe, where he became a prominent theorist in the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP). In 1903, he took a key role in the RSDLP ideological split, leading the Bolshevik faction against Julius Martov's Mensheviks. Following Russia's failed Revolution of 1905, he campaigned for the First World War to be transformed into a Europe-wide proletarian revolution, which as a Marxist he believed would cause the overthrow of capitalism and its replacement with socialism. After the 1917 February Revolution ousted the Tsar and established a Provisional Government, he returned to Russia to play a leading role in the October Revolution in which the Bolsheviks overthrew the new regime.
Lenin's Bolshevik government initially shared power with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries, elected soviets, and a multi-party Constituent Assembly, although by 1918 it had centralised power in the new Communist Party. Lenin's administration redistributed land among the peasantry and nationalised banks and large-scale industry. It withdrew from the First World War by signing a treaty conceding territory to the Central Powers, and promoted world revolution through the Communist International. Opponents were suppressed in the Red Terror, a violent campaign administered by the state security services; tens of thousands were killed or interned in concentration camps. His administration defeated right and left-wing anti-Bolshevik armies in the Russian Civil War from 1917 to 1922 and oversaw the Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1921. Responding to wartime devastation, famine, and popular uprisings, in 1921 Lenin encouraged economic growth through the market-oriented New Economic Policy. Several non-Russian nations had secured independence from the Russian Empire after 1917, but three were re-united into the new Soviet Union in 1922. His health failing, Lenin died in Gorki, with Joseph Stalin succeeding him as the pre-eminent figure in the Soviet government.
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Jayson Paul
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Jayson Anthony Paul is an American professional wrestler currently signed to the National Wrestling Alliance. He is best known for his time in WWE under the ring name JTG.
Paul began his professional wrestling career in 2006 with WWE, being assigned to their developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he was a two-time OVW Southern Tag Team Champion (with Shad Gaspard, as part of Cryme Tyme). In 2006, Cryme Tyme was promoted to WWE's main roster, before both JTG and Gaspard were released from the company the following year. They both returned to the company in 2008, and later split up and feuded with each other until Gaspard's release in 2010.
Later that year, JTG was assigned to NXT, where he was announced as one of the Pros for NXT Redemption, mentoring Jacob Novak. He eventually turned heel and feuded with Vladimir Kozlov's rookie Conor O'Brian and Kozlov himself. He additionally made appearances on SmackDown and Superstars. From late 2012 to 2013, JTG was relegated to jobber status and continued to compete until his release in 2014.
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Milton Moraes
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Começou a carreira aproveitando uma carona de uma caravana circense que passou por Fortaleza, mas ela se desfez chegando na Bahia. Ele pegou então um ônibus e foi para o Rio de Janeiro tentar a carreira de ator. Estreou nos palcos cariocas em 1948 com um espetáculo escrito por Amaral Gurgel. Trabalhou em grandes companhias teatrais com Ziembinski, Paulo Autran e Fernanda Montenegro. Ficou conhecido por seus tipos malandros, boêmios e despreocupados, refletindo a condição dos marginalizados e da população de classe média baixa. No teatro seu maior sucesso foi a montagem de Um Edifício Chamado 200 que ficou anos em cartaz e com a qual viajou pelo Brasil. Na TV seus melhores trabalhos foram nas novelas Bandeira 2, O Espigão e Escalada. Também participou de outros sucessos, como Dancin' Days, a primeira versão de Cabocla, Água Viva, Final Feliz e a minissérie Anos Dourados. Seu último papel foi na novela O Dono do Mundo, em 1991.
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Millie Bobby Brown
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Millie Bobby Brown (born 19 February, 2004) is a British actress and producer. She gained recognition for playing Eleven in the Netflix science fiction series Stranger Things (2016–present), for which she received nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Brown has starred in the adventure film Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and its sequel Godzilla vs. Kong (2021). She also starred in and produced the Netflix mystery film Enola Holmes (2020) and its 2022 sequel.
In 2018, Brown was featured in the Time 100 list of the world's most influential people, and was appointed as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, the then youngest person selected for this position.
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Trish Stewart
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Trish Stewart (born June 14, 1946) is an American television actress. She was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. She is most recognized for her regular role as Chris Brooks Foster on the CBS soap The Young and the Restless. She was part of the premiere cast of the show and played the role for several years, reprising the role for the last time in 1984.
She guest-starred in numerous television shows in the 1970s including Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Trapper John M.D., Barnaby Jones, The Streets of San Francisco, Sword of Justice, Project U.F.O., The Rookies, CHiPs and Most Wanted.
She was one of the three stars of the 1979 TV series Salvage 1. She appeared as herself on the Circus of the Stars and several times as a panelist on Match Game. In addition, she appeared in the 1980 TV miniseries Wild Times, and in the TV films Time Travelers (1976) and Breaking Up is Hard to Do (1979). She also appeared as Richard Basehart's blind daughter in the 1976 horror movie Mansion of the Doomed.
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