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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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Robert Downey Jr.

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Robert John Downey Jr. (born April 4, 1966) is an American actor and producer. His career has been characterized by critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, before a resurgence of commercial success later in his career. In 2008, Downey was named by Time magazine among the 100 most influential people in the world, and from 2013 to 2015, he was listed by Forbes as Hollywood's highest-paid actor. At the age of five, he made his acting debut in his father Robert Downey Sr.'s film Pound in 1970. He subsequently worked with the Brat Pack in the teen films Weird Science (1985) and Less than Zero (1987). In 1992, Downey portrayed the title character in the biopic Chaplin, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a BAFTA Award. Following a stint at the Corcoran Substance Abuse Treatment Facility on drug charges, he joined the TV series Ally McBeal, for which he won a Golden Globe Award. He was fired from the show in the wake of drug charges in 2000 and 2001. He stayed in a court-ordered drug treatment program and has maintained his sobriety since 2003. Initially, completion bond companies would not insure Downey, until Mel Gibson paid the insurance bond for the 2003 film The Singing Detective. He went on to star in the black comedy Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005), the thriller Zodiac (2007), and the action comedy Tropic Thunder (2008); for the latter, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Downey gained global recognition for starring as Tony Stark / Iron Man in ten films within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with Iron Man (2008), and leading up to Avengers: Endgame (2019). He has also played the title character in Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes (2009), which earned him his second Golden Globe, and its sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011). In 2024 he won his first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor thanks to his work in "Oppenheimer."
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Aizzah Fatima

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Aizzah is an actress and writer from New York City by way of Mississippi. After training as a Microbiologist and working as an ads engineer at Google, she traded in her Google perks for the arts, and hasn't looked back. Aizzah is a graudate of the conservatory at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and studied acting with the acclaimed Wynn Handman. Aizzah has appeared on High Maintenance (HBO), The Good Wife (CBS), Patrice O’Neal’s Guide to White People (Comedy Central), opposite Annette O’Toole in the short film Stuff , and is currently filming the lead role in the feature film My Cousin Sister's Wedding for which she wrote the screenplay with Emmy award winning director Iman Zawahry. She is the writer and performer of the ciritically acclaimed comedy one woman play Dirty Paki Lingerie which was developed with Matt Hoverman and Wynn Handman. The play has had sold out performances and received rave reviews in The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, NYC (The Flea Theater, 59E59, Abington Theater),Toronto (Harbourfront Center), a tour in Pakistan sponsored by the US Department of State, three tours in the UK including a 15 city tour in 2016 in addition to a US College Tour. Dirty Paki Lingerie is the first play to be invited to represent the United States at the International Theater Festival of Turkmenistan. The Wall Street Journal hailed it the play that "Breaks down stereotypes of Muslim women in America" and critics called it a "must-see" production. The play has been nominated for a Broadway World award and a Manchester Theatre Award in the UK.
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Mélusine Mayance

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Mélusine Mayance (born 21 March 1999 in Paris) is a French actress. She is best known for her role in the 2010 French-Language film "Sarah's Key", in which she portrayed the childhood version of the story's main character "Sarah Starzynski" (whose life story is uncovered and told by Kristin Scott Thomas's character many decades after the end of the second world war). Known in French as Elle s'appelait Sarah, the historical fiction film is set in 1942 France, in the midst of the second world war. Mélusine's character is a young Jewish child whose family is rounded up and arrested in downtown Paris during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup before being sent to Auschwitz for extermination. Mayance rose to success while starring in films such as Vive Les Vacances! and Ricky in which she plays the half-sister of an infant boy who grows a pair of wings.
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Stuart Blumberg

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Blumberg was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 2010 for co-writing The Kids Are All Right. Blumberg made his directorial debut with the Hollywood film Thanks for Sharing starring Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Gwyneth Paltrow, Josh Gad, Joely Richardson, and Alecia Moore. The film is about sex addiction and how a group of New Yorkers deal with recovery. Blumberg grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, and graduated from University School. He is of Jewish descent. He graduated from Yale University in 1991 with a BA in History, where Edward Norton was his roommate.
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Chippy Sirin Preediyanon

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Sirin Preediyanon (Nickname: Chippy) is an Actress born in Bangkok, Thailand. Chippy's parents are Sumalee Preediyanon (Mother) and Chai Preediyanon (Father). She has a sister named Nakarin Preediyanon. At 5'7", Chippy enjoys reading, drawing, photography, makeup, traveling, dancing, and going to the gym. Chippy likes playing Badminton and Basketball. Chippy loves furry animals and her favorites are cats. Chippy's cats are named Winter, Chocker, Summer, Stormy, Rainie, Spring, Autumn, Sunny, and Cloudy. Chippy owns a condominium and lives with her cats. She can speak English fluently. Chippy attended primary education at Beaconhouse Yamsaard International School in Thailand with her secondary education at Horwang State School in Bangkok, Thailand. Chippy also attended West High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and finished her last year of academic studies at the American Regent's International School in Bangkok, Thailand. Chippy graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Architecture Design and Communication, Chulalongkorn University (International Program) in Bangkok, Thailand in 2017.
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Chris Coy

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Christopher James "Chris" Coy is an American actor. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky. Coy is possibly best known for playing L.P. Everett on the HBO series Treme and Barry on the HBO series True Blood. He also had a recurring part as a cannibal named Martin in season 5 of The Walking Dead. He had roles in films like Hostel: Part III, Sx Tape, Deliver Us from Evil and The Barber. Coy and his wife, Alice, have two daughters: Veronica Darlene (born 2012) and Dylan Ray (born 2015).
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V.J. Foster

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A founding member and the former Associate Artistic Director of The Actors' Gang, the Los Angeles based theater ensemble, VJ is a cast member in a touring production of a world premiere adaptation of George Orwell's 1984. VJ's travels with the Actors' Gang include stops in London, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Edinburgh, Athens, Melbourne, and Barcelona as well as extended runs at the Public Theater in New York City. He is married to Lindsley Allen; the dancer, choreographer and former co-creator of The Pussycat Dolls. - IMDb Mini Biography
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The Cleveland Orchestra

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The Cleveland Orchestra, based in Cleveland, is one of the five American orchestras informally referred to as the "Big Five". Founded in 1918 by the pianist and impresario Adella Prentiss Hughes, the orchestra plays most of its concerts at Severance Hall. As of 2020, the music director is Franz Welser-Möst. In October 2020 The New York Times called it "America's finest [orchestra], still," and in 2012 Gramophone Magazine ranked the Cleveland Orchestra number 7 on its list of the world's greatest orchestras.
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Helena Mattsson

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Helena Mattsson (born 30 March 1984) is a Swedish actress living and working in Hollywood. Mattsson was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, had roles early on in Wild Side Story and other cabarets there, and moved at a young age to London, England, to attend theatre school. When she was 19 years old she moved to Hollywood where she has since stayed. Her first role was in a short-lived TV series called Sweden, Ohio in 2004. In 2007 she starred in Species: The Awakening,and has been cast in the film You and I.Mattsson also appeared in the music video of Primal Scream's "Country Girl" in 2006.She appeared in the Touchstone Pictures film Surrogates and also in three episodes of the ABC series Desperate Housewives as Irina and in three episodes of Nikita as Cassandra Ovechkin. She played Alexis Blume in the TV series 666 Park Avenue.
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