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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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Drazen Kuljanin

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Screenwriter and film director living in Sweden. Born in Bosnia in 1980 and discovered stories at an early age thanks to his grandfather who worked as a projectionist at the local cinema. Left Bosnia for Sweden in 1994 during the civil war and started making movies in his teens and continued doing so. 2010 he graduated in screenwriting from the Broby Grafiska college of cross media 'How to Stop a Wedding' was his directorial feature debut. The film won the best film in 1-2 competition at Warsaw Film Festival and was shot in five hour on a moving train from Malmoe to Stockholm in the middle of winter.
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Iskak

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Born in Solo. Education: SLA, Faculty of Economics, Gajah Mada University (incomplete). This RRI Yogyakarta employee (1955-1958) started playing films in Ke Kota (1959), after moving to Jakarta. Increasingly famous after joining the Kwartet Jaya led by Bing Slamet (1927-1974). Together with Bing Slamet, Eddy Sud and Ateng became permanent employees at PT. Sinar Sakti Film Safari. After Bing Slamet died, Kwartet Jaya disbanded. Iskak and Ateng left PT. Safari, and play in films produced by PT. Neat film. Among others, Ateng Bikin Dizzy (1977), Ateng Pendekar Odd (1977) and Dang Ding Dong (1978). Starting in June 1981, he appeared on the Ria Jenaka program aired by TVRI. Together with Ateng (Bagong), Gareng played by Slamet Harto and Sampan Hismanto (Semar), Iskak has been Petruk in the event for more than 15 years. His last appearance on the big screen was through Weasel Bearded (1983).
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Marianne Stone

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The accomplished character actress Marianne Stone had the distinction of being the most prolific actress in the UK, appearing in over 200 films, an achievement that earned her a place in the latest Guinness Book of World Records as "the actress with the most screen credits". She has also been hailed in the book English Gothic: A Century of Horror Cinema for her contribution to the horror movies that flourished in the Sixties, but most of her screen roles were as working-class characters. In two of her earliest films she was respectively a shop assistant in When the Bough Breaks (1947), and a sluggish waitress in Brighton Rock (1947).
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Steven J. Oliver

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Steven J. Oliver was born on November 4, 1955 in New York, NY, USA as Steven Oliva. He is an actor, known for Nip/Tuck (2003), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Charmed (1998), Cold Case (2003), Carnivàle (2003), Timebomb (1991) and Forbidden Sins (1999). He graduated from the High School of Performing Arts (Drama) in NYC, and New York University (BFA in Filmmaking). He has studied with Paul Mantee, Gordon Hunt, and Salvatore Danò. He is the son of actor Ralph Oliva. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Sanae Zaim

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Sanaa Zaim in arabic [سناء الزعيم] , is a Moroccan actress, journalist and radio presenter. born in Meknes in 1976. She chose the Higher Institute of World Art in Rabat, she obtained her undergraduate degree in 1997, and then continued her studies in Cairo, to study plastic art for two years. In 1999, she returned to Morocco, where she joined the company Soread, she runs a show "Soura" on the channel 2M for 5 years. Then she introduced a program Show "ILAYKI" on the channel Aloula. She joined the radio by introducing the famous radio program "Wlad Lblad" on the channel radio "Aswat". Currently she presents a radio program "Hdith w meghzel " on the same chain. As well as animation of collection to national artistic events. She is married to actor and theatrical director Zakaria Lahlou. She now has a three-year-old daughter, and she lives with her husband in Casablanca.
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Trevor Berbick

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Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican professional boxer who competed from 1976 to 2000. He won the WBC heavyweight title in 1986 by defeating Pinklon Thomas, then lost it in his first defense in the same year to Mike Tyson. Berbick was also the last boxer to fight Muhammad Ali, defeating him in 1981. As an amateur, Berbick won a bronze medal in the heavyweight division at the 1975 Pan American Games. In both his early and late professional career he held the Canadian heavyweight title twice, from 1979 to 1986 and 1999 to 2001.
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Amber Mariano

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Amber Joy Mariano (born August 11, 1978) is an American television personality and winner of Survivor: All-Stars, after appearing as a contestant on one of its predecessors, Survivor: The Australian Outback. On May 9, 2004, she accepted fellow All-Stars competitor Rob Mariano's proposal of marriage on the live Survivor: All-Stars finale which took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amber Mariano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Zabou Breitman

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Zabou Breitman (born Isabelle Breitman; 30 October 1959), or simply Zabou, is a French actress and director. She is the daughter of actors Jean-Claude Deret and Céline Léger. At the age of four, she appeared in her first movie. Since 1981, Zabou has acted in dozens of roles in films, TV movies, and theaters. She made her directoral debut in 2001 with Se souvenir des belles choses, for which she won a César Award for Best Debut. In 2012, she participated in Rendez-vous en terre inconnue. Zabou has two children with the sculptor Fabien Chalon: Anna (1990) and Antonin (1993). Source: Article "Zabou Breitman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Blaze Foley

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Blaze Foley (born Michael David Fuller) was a songwriter who ran with a gaggle of like-minded songwriters who fancied themselves as outlaws and renegades outside the orbit of recognized composers like Willie, Jerry Jeff, Fromholz, Nanci Griffith, Lyle, and Robert Earl. Their guiding light was Townes Van Zandt, the tortured soul who was as inspirational as any writer could be, but who was equally determined to live as an outsider. "If I could only fly..." He lived 39 years until the first day of February 1989, when a bullet from a gun held by a young man stopped everything. It's a long story, good enough that seventeen years later, Blaze Foley is bigger than ever.
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