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Austin Lee Russell
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Austin Lee Russell (born September 8, 1982), known professionally as Chumlee, is an American businessman and reality television personality, known as a cast member on the History Channel television show Pawn Stars, which depicts the daily business at the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas where Russell works as an employee. Chumlee came to work at the pawn shop five years before filming of the first season, having been a childhood friend of Corey Harrison, whose father, Rick Harrison, and grandfather,Richard Benjamin Harrison, opened the shop in 1989.
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Justin Peck
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Justin Peck (born September 8, 1987) is an American choreographer, director, and dancer associated with New York City Ballet, of which he was appointed Resident Choreographer in July 2014, being the second person in the history of the institution to hold this title. He made his Broadway debut working on the 2018 revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel earning the Tony Award for Best Choreography. Peck choreographed the dance sequences for Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the musical West Side Story (2021) and Bradley Cooper's biographical drama Maestro (2023).
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Corinne Laurance
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Corinne Laurance is an award winning American SAG / AFTRA Actress, Recording Artist & Medical Doctor. She began her entertainment career at age 11 studying acting, music, storytelling & voice overs. At the age of 14, she internationally performed as a pop vocalist in Ireland. She studied acting at the Van Mar Academy of Television & Motion Picture Acting in Hollywood under legendary Ivan Markota & with other industry favorites. She vocally trained with Nick Cooper at VCS & with Showcase Singers under Joie Gendron. Her stage performances include Broadway Musical Theatre in Los Angeles in A Christmas Carol, Bye Bye Birdie & Big River. She did her Medical training in Internal Medicine across 5 US states. Entertainment credits include performances in film, television, commercials, hosting, print & theatre. She was a medical spokeswoman for an International Fortune 500 company. She is best known for her starring television role as District Attorney in the TV crime series, Arrest & Trial Series 2000, & American Justice Warriors. Other television credits include The Adventures of Fuzz & Malloy, Uncovered - Crime Series, Outta Pocket Series, & Supreme Justice with Judge Karen. Film credits include leading roles in Catherine The Great, StarTrack, Unbelievable Chinese Prophesies & Dead Time.
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Yuliya Topolnitskaya
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Yuliya Nikolaevna Topolnitskaya (Russian: Юлия Николаевна Топольницкая; born 2 May 1991) is a Russian theater and film actress. She gained fame in January 2016 when she appeared in the music video "Экспонат" (Exhibit) for the Russian band "Leningrad". She was born in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). Her father Nikolay was an entrepreneur and mother, Nadezhda, was a doctor who worked in an orphanage. Yulia's mother wanted her to become a ballerina and for 12 years sent her to a ballet school. "But with the ballet it did not work out for me", - said the actress. Then the parents tried to push the girl into music - they bought her a piano. However, Yuliya did not like this hobby: she did not want to play the piano, and only used it as a shelf for her toys.
In 2014 she graduated from the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, a workshop of Boris Uvarov. Since 2014 she has been working at the St. Petersburg Clownery Theater "Litsedei". In 2015, she participated with Aleksey Shamutilo in the project "Comedy Battle", but the pair finished on the second round.
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Vincent Belorgey
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Vincent Belorgey (born 31 July 1975), known professionally as Kavinsky, is a French musician, producer, DJ, and actor. His production style is reminiscent of the electropop film soundtracks of the 1980s. Kavinsky claims that his music is inspired by thousands of movies he watched as a young boy and that he has cherry-picked the best parts from them, consolidating them into one concept. Kavinsky has been compared to many similar French house artists, including Danger and French duo Daft Punk. He achieved greater mainstream recognition after his song "Nightcall" was featured in the 2011 film Drive. His debut studio album, OutRun, was released in 2013.
After many years as an actor, Kavinsky's musical career started in 2005 after being inspired by his close friends Jackson Fourgeaud and Quentin Dupieux, the latter director also included Kavinsky's music in his film Steak. During this period Kavinsky produced his first single "Testarossa Autodrive" which was inspired by the Testarossa model of Ferrari (one of which Vincent drives in real life). Kavinsky presented the single to Quentin, who in turn presented it to a record label he had access to because of his filming career, and Kavinsky signed with Record Makers.
Kavinsky went on to release three EPs on the Record Makers label: Teddy Boy in 2006, 1986 a year later, and Nightcall with Lovefoxxx of CSS in 2010. Kavinsky toured alongside Daft Punk, The Rapture, Justice, and SebastiAn in 2007.
The SebastiAn remix of "Testarossa Autodrive" off the 1986 EP is featured in the video games Grand Theft Auto IV and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue. Kavinsky's single "Nightcall" was featured in the opening credits of the film Drive, and became a major hit soon after.
In December 2012 he released "ProtoVision" and on 25 February 2013 released his debut studio album OutRun.
In November 2021, he returned from his seven year hiatus with the lead single "Renegade" from his second studio album Reborn. The song is produced by Gaspard Augé and Victor Le Masne.
Kavinsky is a character made by Vincent Belorgey that has a striking resemblance to Vincent himself but the backstory does not follow anything in Belorgey's history. Kavinsky's story is that after crashing his Testarossa in 1986, he reappeared as a zombie in 2006 to make his own electronic music. Kavinsky's songs help tell his story; Vincent claims in an interview, "'Night Call' is just about the zombie guy [who] goes to his girlfriend's house and says okay I'm not the same, we need to talk", referring to Kavinsky going back to find his girlfriend after the crash who has already moved on with her life.
In interview, Kavinsky stated that the entirety of Teddy Boy was written and recorded on a Yamaha DX7, which was famous and notable for the synth-pop sound of the 1980s. Kavinsky originally started making music on an old Apple computer given to him by his friend Mr. Oizo.
Source: Article "Kavinsky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Raúl Mendoza
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Raúl Mendoza is a Mexican professional wrestler, currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he performs on the NXT brand. Mendoza made his professional wrestling debut on September 16, 2006. Over the next ten years, Mendoza would primarily compete on the Mexican independent circuit, most notably appearing for independent promotions Desastre Total Ultraviolento (DTU), Perros del Mal (PdM), and the International Wrestling Revolution Group (IWRG), while also appearing for national promotion Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA) and Japanese promotion Pro Wrestling Noah.
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David Sullivan
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Sullivan grew up in Longview, Texas, an east Texas town of 70,000 people. He was an imaginative and social child early on in life, his curiosity eventually led him to the stage where he performed in one-act plays at Spring Hill High and proved to be a natural in front of live audiences. Upon high school graduation in 1996. He was offered a theater scholarship at Kilgore Junior College but instead, he accepted an academic scholarship to Baylor University and majored in business, graduating in 2000. During college, he performed in plays, was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, and played one year of football. His talent for acting landed him roles in stage productions by the Baylor theater department. Though never a formal student of acting, much of Sullivan's postgraduate years have been dedicated to small budget films working closely with friends on both sides of the camera.
David starred as "Abe" in the 2004 independent film Primer, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. The movie was filmed in Dallas in 2001, but spent two years in editing and post-production. Since the debut of Primer, Sullivan has moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career as an actor. He has appeared in several television shows including Joey and Big Love, and filmed several movies.
Primer was Sullivan's first official casting call, and his first leading role in a feature film.
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Hannes Seifert
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Hannes Seifert is an Austrian video game producer and composer. He co-founded neo Software in 1993, which became Rockstar Vienna in 2003, where he served as CEO for production and as an executive producer for 13 years. In 2006 he co-founded Games That Matter, which became Deep Silver Vienna, where he served as CEO and an executive producer. In 2010, he joined Square Enix as a production director at IO Interactive, serving as the studio head for 4 years until the company's split from Square Enix. In 2017, he joined Riot Games as the Country Manager for Central Europe.
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José Sarney
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José Sarney de Araújo Costa (born José Ribamar Ferreira de Araújo Costa; 24 April 1930) is a Brazilian politician, lawyer, and writer who served as 31st president of Brazil from 1985 to 1990. He briefly served as the 20th vice president of Brazil for a month between April and May 1985.
Sarney was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1955 until 1966 and of the Senate from 1971 until 1985. He was also the Governor of Maranhão from 1966 until 1970. During the Brazilian military dictatorship, Sarney affiliated himself with the government party, ARENA, becoming the president of the party in 1979. Sarney joined the dissenters, and was instrumental in the creation of the Liberal Front Party.
Sarney ran for Vice-President on the ticket of Tancredo Neves of PMDB, formerly the opposition party to the military government. Neves won the presidential election, but fell ill and died before taking office, and Sarney became President. He started out his term with great popularity, but public opinion shifted with the Brazilian debt crisis and the failure of Plano Cruzado to abate chronic inflation. His government is seen today as disastrous and clientelism was widespread having longlasting consequences for the Brazilian Republic post military dictatorship.
Following his presidency, Sarney resumed his senate career elected again in 1991 and serving until 2015. He also held the position of President of the Federal Senate three times following his presidency. At age 92, he is the oldest living former Brazilian president, and at the time of his retirement in 2015, had one of the longest congressional careers in Brazilian history.
Born in Pinheiro, Maranhão, as José Ribamar Ferreira de Araújo Costa, he was the son of Sarney de Araújo Costa, a wealthy land-owner and sugarcane producer, and Kiola Ferreira. His family has origins in Viseu in Portugal. He attended Colégio Marista and the Licéu Maranhense before attending the Federal University of Maranhão. In 1953, he graduated from the federal university receiving his bachelor's degree in law. After his graduation, he launched a postmodernist literary journal titled A Ilha.
In 1965 he legally adopted the name José Sarney de Araújo Costa, usually shortened to José Sarney, for electoral purposes. He was known as "Zé do Sarney", as in "José, son of Sarney". Sarney's father acquired the name after being born on a land owned by an Englishman named "Sir Ney".
Sarney started his political career in the 1950s after becoming a replacement deputy and later as a federal deputy in 1955. He was a member of the centre-right National Democratic Union (União Democrática Nacional—UDN), aligned with the progressive wing of the party. He strongly supported so-called "Revolution of 1964", a military coup that overthrew leftist President João Goulart in 1964. After the military coup, Sarney followed most of the UDN into the National Renewal Alliance (ARENA), the political party of the military government. He was elected governor of the state of Maranhão in 1966, serving until 1971. He was then elected to the Brazilian Senate and became ARENA's president. ...
Source: Article "José Sarney" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Lauren Layfield
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Lauren Layfield is an English television and radio presenter and journalist who works mainly for CBBC and Capital FM.
Layfield joined CBBC continuity in September 2015, at the end of the one-off TV special Hacker's Birthday Bash: 30 Years of Children's BBC, going on to co-host design series, The Dengineers with Mark Wright. In April 2017, Wright left and was replaced with Joe Tracini.
In January 2016, Layfield joined All Over the Place and became a co-host with Ed Petrie. Layfield has made one-off appearances in game shows Ultimate Brain and Celebrity Mastermind and four appearances in the panel show The Dog Ate My Homework.
In 2017 Lauren become the new host of music show The Playlist
She presented for "Match of the Day spin-off show, MOTD Kickabout.
In July 2018, she began covering weekend shows on Capital FM.
Layfield has written for the Top of the Pops magazine.
From 7th January 2019, She started to present the Capital Early Breakfast show. She and Rob Howard are the main relief for the Capital Breakfast with Roman Kemp.
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