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Karena Lam Kar-Yan

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Karena was working at her Vancouver family restaurant when she was discovered by a talent scout from Taiwan in 1993, at age fifteen. The scout persuaded her to fly to Taiwan that Christmas, alone, for a singing audition in the hope of securing a professional contract. The audition was a success and she released two albums, her debut album in 1995 and her second album later in 1999. However both were met with modest success. Her film debut in 2002 changed all this and propelled her to real stardom. Karena starred in three successful Hong Kong films in the same year, winning the awards of Best Supporting Actress and Best New Performer for her role in July Rhapsody directed by Ann Hui (at the 2002 Hong Kong Film Awards) and for Inner Senses by Lo Chi Leung (at the Taiwan Golden Horse Awards), gaining her recognition as a talented young actress and marking the start of her film career. In recent months she has been taking on much more challenging roles, as witnessed in the 2005 horror film Home Sweet Home, where she plays an insane and horribly deformed "phantom" monster who kidnaps a boy from his genetic mother to claim as its own, and was nominated for major awards again.
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Vinzenz Wagner

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Born and raised in Salzburg, Vinzenz Wagner discovered his dancing talent at the age of ten. As a co-founder and active part of the dance theater group Nobulus, Vinzenz Wagner performed on numerous stages worldwide such as the Palace Of Fine Arts (San Francisco), Sadler's Wells Theatre (London) and Das Große Festspielhaus (Salzburg). Vinzenz Wagner starred in the leading role of the hit show Out Of The Shadow, which was praised by The Times and The Guardian as "a revolution of dance theatre..." After seven successful years on the stage, the now experienced artist celebrated his acting debut as the lead character in the Austrian cinema film Rise Up! And Dance. With his role as Klaus Frommer in the Canadian TV show X Company on CBC, Vinzenz Wagner confirmed his acting talent on an international level.
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Matt Monro

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Matt Monro was an English singer who became one of the most popular entertainers on the international music scene during the 1960s and 1970s. Known as The Man with the Golden Voice, he filled cabarets, nightclubs, music halls, and stadiums in Australia, Japan, the Philippines, and Hong Kong to Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas in his 30-year career. AllMusic has described Monro as "one of the most underrated pop vocalists of the '60s", who "possessed the easiest, most perfect baritone in the business". Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Monro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ian MacKaye

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye (born April 16, 1962) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, label owner, and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known for being the frontman of the influential hardcore punk band Minor Threat, the post-hardcore bands Embrace and Fugazi, as well as The Evens. He is a co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label. A key figure in the development of hardcore punk and an enthusiastic promoter of an independent-minded, do it yourself punk ethic, MacKaye also works as a producer, and has produced releases by Q and Not U, John Frusciante, 7 Seconds, Nation of Ulysses, Bikini Kill, Rites of Spring, Dag Nasty, and Rollins Band. Along with his seminal band Minor Threat, he is credited with coining the term "straight edge" to describe an ideology that eschews drug and alcohol abuse, though MacKaye has stated many times that he did not intend to turn it into a movement. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian MacKaye, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Adrienne Pauly

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Adrienne Pauly (born 30 May 1977) is a French actress and pop-rock singer. She joined the Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique in 1996, where she studied drama, and acted in films until 2002, when she discovered the piano through Camille Bazbaz. Later, she recorded a demo and, in 2004, made her first concert at the House of Live in Paris, and then to Dejazey in Rennes and thereafter at the Lavoir Moderne and at the Olympic Café. She released her first album on 16 October 2006. Source: Article "Adrienne Pauly" 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Franck de la Personne

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Franck Lapersonne (a.k.a. Franck de la Personne) (born 29 October 1963) is a French comedian, actor theatre director, and political candidate. Franck de la Personne is the son of Jacques Lapersonne and Jacqueline Charlotte Poinson. He also has brothers and sisters. He graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris. As of February 2017, he openly supports Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election. He is also running in the 2017 French legislative election to represent the Somme for the National Front. He is now a vice president of the party "Les Patriotes" founded by Florian Philippot, the former right-hand man of Marine Le Pen. Source: Article "Franck de Lapersonne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Evelyn Finley

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Evelyn Ruth Finley was known as the most accomplished stunt rider in the western genre. Famous director William A. Wellman was one of many who regarded her as the best in the business. She worked with horses from early childhood and grew up a tomboy on her father's ranch. Her dad had promised 'to put her into pictures', but how she eventually arrived in Hollywood is unclear. Winning a beauty contest as 'Miss Albuquerque' might have helped. The year was 1936 and her first picture was as stunt double to Jean Parker. By 1940, Evelyn was under contract at Monogram where her skills in the saddle quickly promoted her to leading lady opposite the likes of Tex Ritter, Tom Keene, Johnny Mack Brown and Buster Crabbe. As blonde Eve Anderson, she got to star in one of the last serials made at Columbia, Perils of the Wilderness (1956). However, Evelyn preferred the stunt work to acting, often doubling on horseback for glamorous stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Loretta Young. She remained involved in her area of expertise, either actively or as technical adviser, well into the 1980's. When not working in the film industry, she toured as an equestrian performer at different circuses. Evelyn was inducted into the Stuntmen's Hall of Fame.
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Ahmed Azmy

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Ahmed Azmy started his career at a very early age. His career path began at the age of 11, when he used to write poems and send them to a children's radio show. His poems and letters were so moving, that they grabbed the attention of Mohamed Hamdy, the president of radio broadcasting at the time. Hamdy introduced him to Abla Fadila, who personally invited him to be a regular on her famous children's radio show. From children's radio, he was introduced to the actress Inaam elKretili, who helped launch his career in television. He first appeared as a child actor in the TV show The Knights starring Ahmed Abdel Aziz. After finishing high school, he enrolled in the High Academy of Performing Arts to cement his talent and work experience with a formal education in acting. He also enrolled in the director Youssef Shahin's talent agency, which gave him his first job as an adult in the movie Closed Doors after passing rigorous auditions and casting calls. In 2001, he won numerous "Best Actor" awards in 3 different movie festivals for his role in this film. He later went on to act in Yousry Nasrallah's film The City. Azmy gained notoriety through his role in the popular TV show "Abbas elAbyad" starring Yehia elfakharany, whom Azmy considers his godfather in this industry. He lives with his wife Dina and son Adam.
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Danny Pudi

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Daniel Mark Pudi (born March 10, 1979) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Abed Nadir on the NBC sitcom Community (2009–2015), for which he received three nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and one nomination for the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy. Since 2020 he has starred as Brad Bakshi in the Apple TV+ comedy series Mythic Quest. He played the lead role in The Tiger Hunter, a comedic and warmhearted independent film surrounding the immigrant experience directed by Lena Khan in 2016 and funded through a Kickstarter campaign. His short film, Running, which he wrote himself, follows Pudi as he sets out on a mission to solve the puzzle of his father and finds himself instead on a complex, funny, and vulnerable journey of self-discovery and acceptance.
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