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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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Gal Gadot

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Gal Gadot (born: April 30, 1985) is an Israeli actress and model. She was born in Rosh Ha'ayin, Israel, to an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Poland, Austria, Germany, and Czechoslovakia). She served in the IDF for two years, and won the Miss Israel title in 2004. Gal began modeling in the late 2000s, and made her film debut in the fourth film of the Fast and Furious franchise, Fast & Furious (2009), as Gisele, an associate of the film's lead villain. Her role was expanded in the sequels Fast Five (2011) and Fast & Furious 6 (2013), in which her character was romantically linked to Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang). In the films, Gal performed her own stunts. She also appeared in the 2010 films Date Night (2010) and Knight and Day (2010). In early December 2013, Gal was cast as Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe. Gal is a motorcycle enthusiast, and owns a black 2006 Ducati Monster-S2R. She has been married to Yaron Versano since September 28, 2008. They have one child.
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Amy Lynn Baxter

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Baxter grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The niece of Max ("Jethro Bodine") Baer Jr. immigrated to Hollywood at age 17 to live in Baer's mansion and her uncle promptly set up her up with James Woods, who she dated for several months. Despite being in California, Amy Lynn actually began her acting career in Florida where she picked up roles in T&A beach comedies like Summer's Games (1987), Summer Job (1989) and Lauderdale (1989) and in the Italian production Karate Warrior 2 (1988); all of which were filmed in and around Daytona Beach and Miami. Afterward, Baxter appeared in a nude pictorial in Penthouse magazine, becoming their "Pet of the Month" for June 1990. Other acting roles followed, mostly in softcore films directed by Ernest G. Sauer and shot in New York City. Baxter is perhaps best known as a frequent fixture on Howard Stern's radio show and as the cover girl for his autobiography Private Parts. She appeared in Playboy's "Women of Radio" issue on behalf of the Stern show, which ended up severing her ties with competitor Penthouse. Amy Lynn has also appeared on talk shows like Geraldo, The Montel Williams Show and The Maury Povich Show.
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Evgeny Shelyakin

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Evgeny Vladimirovich Shelyakin (born 18 September, 1976; Krasnodar) is a Russian filmmaker, screenwriter, tv writer/director/producer and actor. Born and raised in Krasnodar. As a child, he went to a theater studio, independently came up with performances, and at school I created my own show group. Yevgeny received his first professional education as an electrical engineer. In 1998, Shelyakin graduated from the Krasnodar law Institute of the Ministry of internal Affairs of Russia with the qualification "lawyer" and worked as an investigator in the police for 4 years. At the same time, Yevgeny Shelyakin became interested in KVN. In 1995-1998, he was the captain of the KVN team "The Law Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs" and played in the Krasnodar city League and for the city's national team. Later, he became the captain of the Kuban Cossacks team, which reached the semifinals of the KVN Higher League in 1999. In 2008, he graduated from VGIK with a degree in feature film Directing in the workshop of Valery Akhadov, where he currently conducts teaching activities. On television, Shelyakin worked as a screenwriter and director in entertainment programs, and also wrote scripts for TV series, including Afromoskvich and Happy Together. As an employee of the script department of Channel One, he worked on "New year's lights", which later turned into"Olivier Show". As a writer and director, he participated in the creation of the popular projects "Projectorperishilton", "Yesterday Live", and the animated animated show-parody "Cartoon Personality". On these projects, Yevgeny Shelyakin worked not only in the studio, but also directed on-site shooting of clips, sketches, and parodies of trailers. In 2008, he made a short film "Freud's Dolls", and the film "B/W" became his directorial debut in full meter. Yevgeny Shelyakin's work was highly appreciated by the famous Russian film reviewer Yevgeny Bazhenov, who called him one of his favorite directors and starred in his film "Friday" as a cameo.
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Mohamed Fekrane

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Mohamed Fekrane is a Franco-Moroccan director, producer and screenwriter born July 17, 1972 in Tonnerre in Yonne (France). He stood out in 2010 with a first multi-award winning historical short film "Together" with Habib Kadi, Tony Baillargeat, Arsène Mosca, Clémence Thioly who tell the story of the resistance of the Paris mosque under the occupation. He has directed numerous short films, commercials, documentaries and music videos, including: In 2023 "Khaïma (La Tente)" (57-minute documentary), "Inwi" National Campaign 2020/2022 (TV commercial film), in 2015 "Sahara Swing" (Short film), in 2014 "Asma Lmnawar: Hakawa" (Music video), in 2012 "Bonjour Madame, Bonjour Monsieur" (Short film), "Essaouira Gnawa Music Festival 2010" (Documentary), in 2010 Chopard Golf ( Advertising film), "Together" (Short film) 2010... In December 2022, his first theatrical feature film "Dernier Round" was finally released, after receiving numerous awards and nominations at various festivals around the world. The film tells the story of 3 street children in Morocco, led by Rachid who survives by boxing in illegal fights to hope to pay for the clandestine crossing of the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. "Dernier Round" is revealed with its 3 main roles of new Moroccan cinema talents embodied by Youssef Ettouile, Ahmed Elmir and Yacine Elgarda facing an international cast with Rabie Kati, Rachel Khan, Moussa Maaskri, Habib Kadi, Farid Elouardi, Mustapha Abourachid , Yassine Azzouz...
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Louis Cole

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Louis John Cole (born 28 April 1983), better known by his online alias FunForLouis, is an English-born film-maker and YouTube personality based in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California. He has a following of over 2 million on YouTube and is best known for posting a daily video blog on the channel FunForLouis, which documents his life and travels adventuring all over the globe. Cole originally found fame through filming eating stunts on another channel, FoodForLouis, but has since taken these videos down to focus on the positive message of FunForLouis. (Wikipedia)
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Juan-Peter Schulze

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A “pilot, photographer, filmmaker,” and travel vlogger, Juan-Peter Schulze has a passion for adventure that has helped him build a dedicated following of 30K+ subscribers to his YouTube channel the_candourist, as well as nearly 70K+ Instagram followers. Born in Namibia and based in New Zealand, JP’s travel photos capture the beauty of the world, while his vlogs show how much he loves the view from both a bicycle and the cockpit of an airplane. He kicked off 2017 by completing a 3500-mile bike trip from LA to NYC, and ended the year flying around the world with friend and fellow YouTuber Louis Cole. The two encountered people and cultures from all corners of the globe, documenting everything in 72 episodes of the series World Flight on the FunForLouis YouTube channel. (shortyawards.com)
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Ivanna Sakhno

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Ivanna Anatoliyivna Sakhno (Ukrainian: Іванна Анатоліївна Сахно; born 14 November 1997) is a Ukrainian and American actress. Born to a family of filmmakers, Sahkno left Ukraine at 13 to learn English in Vancouver and then moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. Sakhno gained prominence for her portrayal of Cadet Viktoriya in the science fiction monster film Pacific Rim Uprising (2018). In the Disney+ television series Ahsoka (2023), she portrayed the Jedi mercenary Shin Hati.
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Xing Yun

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Xing Yun, born in Dalian of Liaoning Province, is a Chinese model and singer-actor. She graduated from Beijing Film Academy. In 2009, she successfully won the "Miss International Tourism Top 5 Talents", "World Tourism Image Ambassador Third Runner-up", "Best Photogenic Award", and "Miss World Top Ten" and other beauty pageant awards. She then made her singing debut as the captain of the girl group Juniperus. In 2013, she won the "Shengzhuang Asian Fashion Singer Award" for her EP "Strong Girl". Xing officially transformed into an actress in 2015 with her debut appearance in the "Husband's Secret Stash" and "Beautiful Woman".
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Ken Takakura

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Ken Takakura (高倉 健, Takakura Ken), born Gouichi Oda (February 16, 1931, in Kitakyūshū, Fukuoka, Japan), was a Japanese actor best known for his brooding style and the stoic presence he brings to his roles. Takakura gained his streetwise swagger and tough-guy persona watching yakuza turf battles over the lucrative black market and racketeering in postwar Fukuoka. This subject was covered in one of his most famous movies, Showa Zankyo-den (Remnants of Chivalry in the Showa Era), in which he played an honorable old-school yakuza among the violent post-war gurentai. A graduate of Meiji University in Tokyo Takakura happened by an audition in 1955 at the Toei Film Company, and decided to look in. Toei found a natural in Takakura as he debuted with Denko Karate Uchi (Lightning Karate Blow) in 1956. Japan experienced a boom in gangster films in the 1960s as the Japanese people struggled with the generational differences between those raised in pre-war and post-war Japan and these were Takakura's stock and trade. His breakout role would be in the 1965 film Abashiri Prison, and its sequel Abashiri Bangaichi: Bokyohen (Abashiri Prison: Longing for Home, also 1965), in which he played an ex-con antihero. By the time Takakura would leave Toei in 1976, he had appeared in over 180 films. Takakura gained international recognition after starring in the 1970 war film Too Late the Hero as the cunning Imperial Japanese Major Yamaguchi, the 1975 Sydney Pollack sleeper hit The Yakuza with Robert Mitchum and is probably best known in the West for his role in Ridley Scott's Black Rain (1989) where he surprises American cops played by Michael Douglas and Andy García with the line, "I do speak fucking English". He again proved himself bankable to Western audiences with the 1992 Fred Schepisi comedy Mr. Baseball starring Tom Selleck. While he has slowed down a bit in his older years, he is still active. His most recent film was the 2005 Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles by Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ken Takakura, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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