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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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Gino Antonio

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Gino Antonio, born Jack Catan Badon, is a former Filipino actor famous for a string of hits in the 1980s. He was acclaimed for his exemplary work, notably for a nomination for Best Actor for the Gawad Urian for his role in Takaw Tukso (1986). Another one of his notable films is Private Show (1985), which is now considered a classic Pinoy neorealism film. After several years of doing films, Gino Antonio decided to leave the entertainment industry. The former actor is now living in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental.
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Sofia Essaïdi

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Sofia Essaïdi (Arabic: صوفيا السعيدي, born 6 August 1984) is a French-Moroccan singer and actress. She was born in Casablanca, to a Moroccan father, Lhabib Essaïdi, and a French mother, Martine Adeline Gardelle. From 30 August to 13 December 2003, she participated in the show Star Academy France's third season, becoming a semi-finalist. She eventually finished second to Elodie Frégé. From 12 March to 7 August 2004, she participated in the Star Academy tour, going to Morocco, and Papeete, Tahiti, where she celebrated her 20th birthday. She released her first album called Mon cabaret. Later, she starred in the musical Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Égypte choreographed by Kamel Ouali which opened in "le Palais des Sports" in Paris on 29 January 2009. In 2011, She appeared in the first season of the French version of Dancing with the Stars. She placed as the runners up with her partner, Maxime Dereymez with 38% of the public votes. This table shows the route of Sofia Essaïdi and Maxime Dereymez in Danse Avec Les Stars. In the final, the freestyle wasn't rated. Source: Article "Sofia Essaïdi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Cherien Dabis

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Cherien Dabis (born November 27, 1976) is a Palestinian-American director, producer, and screenwriter. Her father is Palestinian and her mother is Jordanian. She spent many of her childhood summers in Jordan. Following a series of racist and Islamophobic incidents against her family when she was 14 years old, Dabis began wanting to change the way in which Arabs were portrayed in Western media. She went on to receive her B.A. with honors in creative writing and communications from the University of Cincinnati and her M.F.A. in film from Columbia University School of the Arts. She began her career as a writer with the television series The L Word from 2006 to 2008. Dabis's first short film, Make a Wish, premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and received awards at the Aspen Shortsfest, the Cairo International Film Festival for Children, the Chicago International Children's Film Festival, and the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. She made her feature film debut with Amreeka, which premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and opened to critical praise at other notable venues. Her second feature film, May in the Summer, screened at Sundance's opening night in 2013. Dabis's films are somewhat autobiographical, as she aims to represent the unique perspective of being raised between the Middle East and the American Midwest. Her films take on themes of immigration, discrimination, cultural assimilation, and family. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cherien Dabis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Aleksey Mogilevskiy

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Russian keyboard player, saxophonist, arranger, vocalist, member of Sverdlovsk rock groups “Urfin Djus”, “Flag”, “Nastya”, “Egor Belkin Group”, own project “Association” (full name - “Association for Promoting the Return of Lost Youth On the Path] Virtues "). He graduated from the Sverdlovsk Music College named after Tchaikovsky (1985), pop music, a jazz saxophone class, specializing in “head of pop groups”. In June 1986, he joined the rock band Nautilus pompilius. After Vyacheslav Butusov's dissolution of the "star cast" of the group in November 1988, Aleksey Mogilevskiy began to actively engage in his own project, which he did not stop working on, even when he was closely involved in Nautilus Pompilius. As the "Association for the Promotion of the Return of Lost Youth on the Path of Virtue" he recorded and released 6.5 of his own albums. After the collapse of the group, in 1997 he worked at Aleksandr Novikov’s studio “SNR-Records” as a regular arranger, an employee of the radio station “Our Radio - Yekaterinburg”, being the author and performer of his own programs “Touring Bikes” and “Touring Ba-Bikes”. At the same time, he began to actively write advertising and software jingles for local radio stations and television companies, such as Radio C, Channel 4, and ATN. Since 2002, he was a full-time sound engineer, arranger, sound designer and composer of the SL-Studio three-dimensional graphics and animation department under the direction of Semyon Levin. The designer of programs and interprogram space of such Russian and foreign television companies as TV-6, TVS, STV (Novosibirsk), Channel 4 (Yekaterinburg), RTVi, TBi. The author of the main screensaver of the First Channel program “Minute of Glory” (three seasons). As an employee of SL-Studio, he voiced the title credits of many well-known Russian television series (Cops, Secrets of Investigation, National Security Agent, I Will Decide Everything Myself, I May Call You Mom, Solo for a Gun with an orchestra "," Stiletto "and many others. Author of background (optional) and noise soundtracks in the television series" Convoy PQ-17 "," Shtrafbat "," Narrow Bridge ".
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Gianluca Grignani

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Gianluca Grignani (born 7 April 1972) is an Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist. After performing at the 1994 Sanremo Music Festival, PolyGram put him under contract and he released the acoustic ballad "La mia storia tra le dita", which became a number-one hit all over Iberoamerica and some European countries. In 1995, Grignani had his breakthrough with the album Destinazione Paradiso, which sold two million copies in Italy within a year, and for which he was awarded the Telegatto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gianluca Grignani, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Philip Saville

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Philip Saville (sometimes credited as Philip Savile, born 28 October 1930, London) is a British actor who turned to television direction and screenwriting in the late 1950s. During the 1960s he directed several important television plays, such as Harold Pinter's A Night Out (1960) for ABC's Armchair Theatre anthology series, and the lost Madhouse on Castle Street (1963) for the BBC. The later production became famous as the first acting appearance of the American folk singer Bob Dylan, whom Saville had flown over to the UK specifically to take part in the play. Other notable programmes on which Saville worked included Out of the Unknown (1965) and the Boys from the Blackstuff (1982) for which Saville received a BAFTA to add to his earlier BAFTA for Hamlet. In film Saville directed The Fruit Machine (1988, released as Wonderland in the USA), Metroland (1997) and The Gospel of John (2003). Saville has been called one of the UK's top 100 directors of all time. He is active in film and television as of 2006, and has a masterclass studio in London specializing in dramatic improvisation. Philip Saville has recently completed a special documentary on Harold Pinter Pinter's Progress for Sundance international television channels and UK's Sky Arts. Saville is currently developing further arts programming with Sundance and British TV company 3DD Productions including Discovering Hamlet now in production. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nina Axelrod, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Leo Gassmann

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Leo Gassmann (born 22 November 1998) is an Italian singer and songwriter. Born in Rome, he is the son of the actors Alessandro Gassmann and Sabrina Knaflitz, and the grandson of the actors Vittorio Gassmann and Juliette Mayniel. In 2018 he participated at the twelfth edition of the Italian X Factor; he ended up fifth and released his debut single "Piume". Gassmann then competed and won at the "Newcomers" section of the 2020Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Vai bene così". His first studio album "Strike" was released on 7 February 2020. He competed at the 2023 Sanremo Music Festival with "Terzo cuore". Description above from the Wikipedia article Leo Gassmann, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dawn Zulueta

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Marie Rachel Salman Taleon (born March 4, 1969) is a Filipino film-television actress, host and commercial model. Zulueta holds the distinction of winning both the Filipino Academy of Movies Arts and Sciences (FAMAS) awards for Best Lead Actress (Hihintayin Kita sa Langit) and Best Supporting Actress (Una Kang Naging Akin) in 1991. She also bagged the Supporting Actress of the Year in the Film Academy of the Philippines for Una Kang Naging Akin. She was also declared by the Guillermo Mendoza Memorial Foundation Entertainment Award as the Box Office Queen of 1994 for starring in that year's highest-grossing film: The Maggie Dela Riva Story...God Why Me? Her other Best Actress honors include the 1993 Metro Manila Film Festival for Kung Mawawala Ka Pa; 1993 FAMAS for Kung Mawawala Ka Pa; and 1994 Philippine Movie Press Club (PMPC) Star Awards for Movies for Buhay ng Buhay Ko. Further, she has received multiple nominations (for both lead and supporting roles) from the prestigious Manunuri ng Pelikulang Pilipino (MPP) Gawad Urian. In 1996, Zulueta starred with 90's rising star and former child star Sheryl Cruz and 1994 Beauty Queen Charlene Gonzales in the hit Drama-Vengeance film Ikaw Naman Ang Iiyak for Viva Films as a lead role as Elaine which became a career booster as a lead actress. In 1996, Zulueta was cited in a Manila Times article as the 10th Best Filipino Actress from 1970 to 1996. In addition, a 1999 Manila Standard article named her as one of the Top 10 Actresses of the 1990s. In 2010, Zulueta took the lead role in a stage musicale, A Little Night Music.
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Adjani Arumpac

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Adjani Arumpac is a documentarist and an assistant professor at the University of the Philippine Film Institute. Her directorial works include: Walai (2006); a documentary about Muslim women in Mindanao, Philippines; Nanay Mameng (2012) a biopic of beloved octogenarian urban poor mass leader in the Philippines, Carmen Deunida; and War is A Tender Thing (2013), an essay film on the war in Southern Philippines told through her family’s memories of struggle. Her works have been shown in various local and international festivals, as well as reiterated in visual art exhibitions. She is convenor of DoQ, a platform that aims to give agency to independent and regional documentarists, students, and alternative media workers by providing a regular screening space, with support from partner theaters. She was awarded a British Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Chevening scholarship in 2018 through which she finished her MA on Digital Media and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London.
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