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John Wetton
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John Kenneth Wetton (12 June 1949 – 31 January 2017) was an English singer, bassist, and songwriter. He was born in Willington, Derbyshire, and grew up in Bournemouth, Dorset. He rose to fame with bands Mogul Thrash, Family, King Crimson, Roxy Music and Uriah Heep.
Following his period in Uriah Heep, Wetton formed U.K., and later — after a brief stint in Wishbone Ash — he was the frontman and principal songwriter of the supergroup Asia, which proved to be his biggest commercial success. Their eponymous debut album sold eight million copies worldwide, and was Billboard magazine's No. 1 album of 1982. He later formed the duo Icon with Geoff Downes (also from Asia, ex-Yes, ex-The Buggles), and from the 1990s had a successful solo career, releasing several studio and live albums.
Wetton had a long career as an in-demand session bass player, collaborating with many members of progressive rock bands such as Yes (Steve Howe, Bill Bruford, Alan White, Billy Sherwood, Peter Banks), Roxy Music (Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera) and Genesis (Steve Hackett).
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Siamak Ansari
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Ansari, Siamak (born 1968, Tehran) Siamak Ansari has a degree in Theater and Television from Islamic Azad University. In 1995, when he was working in advertisement industry, one of his friends invited him to act in Rasoul Mollaqolipour's 'A Trip to Chazabeh'. Ansari is mostly known for his roles in Mehran Modiri's comedy series such as 'Tiptoe' (2002), 'Dotted Line' (2003-2004), 'The Grand Prize' (2005), 'Barareh Nights' (2005), 'Mozaffar’s Garden' (2006), 'The Man of a Thousand Faces' (2007), 'The Man of Two Thousand Faces' (2008), 'Bitter Coffee' (2009), 'My Villa' (2012), 'I'm Just Kidding' (2013), and 'In Hashieh' (2014-2015).
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Aldo Tonti
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Aldo Tonti (2 March 1910 – 2 July 1988) was an Italian cinematographer.
Born in Rome, Tonti started his career as photographer, then entered the industry of cinema as assistant camera operator. He debuted as cinematographer in 1939, with Piccoli naufraghi by Flavio Calzavara; his first important work was Ossessione by Luchino Visconti. His works include films by Federico Fellini, King Vidor, Richard Fleischer, Roberto Rossellini, John Huston, Alberto Lattuada, Mario Monicelli, Sergio Sollima, Pietro Germi, Dino Risi, Marco Ferreri. In 1961 he won a Silver Ribbon for best cinematography for Nicholas Ray's The Savage Innocents. Tonti retired in 1982.
Source: Article "Aldo Tonti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Tom Hillmann
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Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award winner, Tom Hillmann recurs on the CW's "Star-Crossed" as series regular, Grey Damon's father.
A native New Yorker, Tom grew up on the sunny shores of the Atlantic coast, went to college in the heartland, then ventured west to Los Angeles. Early in his career while trying to break into the business, he supported himself with odd jobs including painting address numbers on street curbs, playing a Power Ranger at children's parties, and even endured a short stint as a drug test specimen taker.
Hillmann studied with Peabody Award-winning director, Don Richardson at UCLA for a semester then was invited to his private class where he studied for several years.
His recurring guest star role opposite David Caruso in "CSI: Miami" originated in the pilot cross-over episode in the original "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" directed by Danny Cannon.
Other TV credits include "Army Wives" (recurring as Dr. Adam Harwood,) "Burn Notice," "One Tree Hill," "K-Ville," and "Recount."
In Los Angeles he has performed in numerous Equity theatre productions including lead roles in "She Loves Me," "Guys & Dolls," "The 1940'S Radio Hour," "Fiddler on the Roof," "Into the Woods," "See How They Run," "A Christmas Carol," and "The Traveling Lady."
He is married with three children and enjoys traveling, the arts, and pursuing a healthy lifestyle. - IMDb Mini Biography
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Petra Scharbach
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Petra Scharbach, best known as Petra, is a German actress, model, singer and painter. She was sometimes credited as Petra Rockstar.
Born in Frankfurt, at 6 moved to Parma with her mother. In Italy, after having participated and won several beauty contests and worked as a model in local fashion shows, debuted in the mid-eighties as singer and softcore actress. In the same period she appeared on the cover of Playmen and of the French edition of Penthouse.
Then she worked for several years with the Riccardo Schicchi's agency Diva Futura and was the main actress in several softcore movies. After some years she left Rome and returned to Parma to host a sport program in TV Parma. During these years she was a protagonist of gossip columns for her relations with American actor Tony Curtis.
In the early 2000s she began a career as a body art painter.
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Maxim Esterkin
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Maxim Esterkin was born in Riga, the capital city of Latvia and the major industrial, commercial, cultural and financial center of the Baltic region. For High School, Maxim had graduated Fryeburg Academy, a private college preparatory school in Fryeburg, Maine. He continued his studies at De Paul University Chicago, obtaining a Bachelor in Business Administration (BBA) which he completed in 2000. After college Maxim was involved in real estate as an entrepreneur.
It was at a casual business meeting in Bucharest, Hungary in 2007 where Maxim was introduced to acting. An introduction with a director and producer led to a speaking part in a movie project starring Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore,Ron Perlman, Kevin McKidd and Jordi Molla called Bunraku.This action-fantasy story written by up and coming writer/director Guy Moshe ignited a passion in Maxim that he knew he must pursue
It was in 2006 when Maxim began to explore himself in various acting workshops. It was his passionate love for acting/writing which drove Maxim to stay on top of his craft and continuously re-discover himself through his work with other talent. Completely proficient in English and fluent in his native Russian, Maxim has undergone extensive coaching lessons with Robert Easton (Los Angeles) to minimize his Eastern European accent.
Maxim's dedication to exploring and learning the craft of acting has paid off. His current credits include the following films:
Red Dog Black Dog (2012), Director/Best of NYU Tish School. Bunraku (2010), director Guy Moshe Picturesque Films; . Shadows of the White Nights (2010) starring Christian Slater, director Robert Crombie/Whale Studios; Noirland (2010), starring James Duval, Bloodshot Pictures, director Ramzi Abed; The Land of the Astronauts (2009) starring David Arquette and Vivica A. Fox, director Carl Colpaert. Violent Blue (2009), Cinema Epoch, director Gregory Hatanaka. Clouds Over the Hill (2010), directed by Shibata Takeshi and Sato Mikio for broadcast TV network NHK (Japan).
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Roman Yunusov
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Родился в Кимовске Тульской области 9 сентября 1980 года. Окончил Московскую сельскохозяйственную академию. Играл в КВН в составе команды Рос-Ноу, куда его пригласил его будущий напарник по дуэту «Сёстры Зайцевы» Алексей Лихницкий. В 2003 году познакомился с капитаном команды «Новые армяне» Гариком Мартиросяном, от которого узнал о наборе в программу Comedy Club. Придя на кастинг, он встретил Алексея, который прошёл кастинг и искал себе напарника для дуэта. Также совместно с Алексеем Лихницким был ведущим утреннего эфира на радио «Максимум». Недавно стало известно, что весной Роман Юнусов примет участие в проекте телеканала DTV «Юморе$$ки» (аналог передачи «Убойная Лига»). С 2010 года участвует в программе Наша Russia в роли болельщика «Москвича».
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Christine Bravo
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Christine Bravo (born 13 May 1956) is a French television presenter, journalist, columnist and author.
Christine Bravo was born in Paris, her father Antonio Bravo was a Spanish mason from Toledo. At the age of 18, she left her family to live in Paris. She met one year earlier Jean-Paul Sartre, while creating the newspaper Libération, in which she collaborates with the philosopher. After graduating in history at the Paris Diderot University, she passed the contest of normal school and became a teacher from 1979 to 1982. In 1980, she lived for one year in Tijuana, Mexico. After coming back to France, she published with an editor of Flammarion her first autobiographical novel Avenida B.
In 1983, she participated at a contest organized by Le Matin de Paris. The theme for the contestants was to write a letter about their vacation. The letter of Christine Bravo received the first prize and was published in the daily newspaper. Jean-Dominique Bauby, the chief editor of the culture section, engaged her as a journalist, where she stayed until the end of publication of the newspaper.
Christine Bravo became later a columnist for Elle and also collaborated for Le Journal du dimanche, L'Événement du jeudi, France Soir, Paris Match and Cosmopolitan. In 1988, she began her career in television and started collaborating with Frédéric Mitterrand in his program Permission de minuit. Christophe Dechavanne decides to entrust her the notepad of his program Ciel, mon mardi!, but she left the program. Bernard Rapp proposes her to host the section Bonheur in his program L'Assiette anglaise.
She started presenting on 24 January 1990 on channel FR3 her first program Mille Bravo about culture and modern art, broadcast on the third part of the evening on Friday. In April 1991, the program was broadcast the first Sunday of every month. In June 1991, Christine Bravo left FR3 to join Antenne 2 where she hosts Merci et encore bravo, broadcast on the third part of the evening on Thursday.
In September 1992, she hosts Frou-Frou until June 1994. She then presents Chérie, j'ai un truc à te dire in 1994 and J'ai un problème in 1995. That same year, she left the audiovisual and after appearing in an advertisement for a laundry powder, she took a sabbatical year.
1n 1998, she started again her career with Union libre on France 2 every two weeks. In 2002, she adapted the program to the French counties with Douce France every Saturday. After a year, the program was not broadcast anymore.
Christine Bravo has two children, Mathieu (born in 1978) and Clara (born in 1992).
Source: Article "Christine Bravo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Gavril Gordeev
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Родился 17 декабря 1982 года в Перми. Учился в гимназии имени С. П. Дягилева. Закончил Пермский государственный технический университет.
Первые роли играл в театре-студии «КОД» под руководством М. А. Оленевой, затем в театре «Новая драма». Участник команды КВН «Парма» и сборной Пермского края «Друзья». C 2006 года резидент «Comedy Club» под псевдонимом Гавр. Сначала часто выступал в шоу с Александром Реввой, в настоящее время работает в паре с Олегом Верещагиным.
С января 2010 года участвует в скетч-шоу «Два Антона».
Генеральный продюсер Comedy Radio.
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