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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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Cha Woong-ki
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Cha Woong Ki is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a former member of the Korean Boygroup "TO1." He graduated from Hanlim Arts School and is currently attending the Seoul Institute of the Arts.
TO1 initially debuted under the name T0O in 2020 after being formed on the Mnet survival show "World Klass;" they rebranded as TO1 in March 2021. On May 24, 2022, WAKEONE Entertainment announced that the group would temporarily be halting all activities to reorganize and Woong Ki's departure was announced the next month.
On June 22, 2023 WAKEONE released official statement announcing Woong Ki's departure from the agency.
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January Jones
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January Kristen Jones (born January 5, 1978) is an American actress and model who played Betty Draper in Mad Men (2007–2015), for which she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress – Television Series Drama and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. She also portrayed Melissa Chartres in The Last Man on Earth (2015–2018) and has starred in films such as American Wedding (2003), We Are Marshall (2006), The Boat That Rocked (2009), Unknown (2011), Seeking Justice (2011), and X-Men: First Class (2011).
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Tanroh Ishida
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Tanroh Ishida, is a London based Japanese actor.
He is both a classically trained actor from Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and a professionally trained Japanese Traditional Theatre actor.
Tanroh started training in Japanese Traditional Noh/Kyogen Theatre at the age of three. His father and his father's master were his own masters in Japan, during this period. With his theatre company he performed at a number of theatres nationally and internationally; including the Carnegie Hall and Shakespeare's Globe.
At the age of 15 Tanroh became interested in learning about the western style of theatre. He moved to England to study and audition for drama schools. He was accepted at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After graduating from Guildhall, Tanroh formed his own theatre company to explore his rare experiences as an actor, having had the unique privilege of classical training in both the East and West. This "Tea Leaf Theatre" company is based on his life time ambition of marrying Japanese and Western theatre and has received critical acclaim; such as 5 star reviews at the Edinburgh festival. - IMDb Mini Biography By: WBM
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Sienna Miller
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Sienna Rosie Diana Miller (born December 28, 1981) is an American-born English actress. Born in New York City and raised in London, she began her career as a photography model, appearing in the pages of Italian Vogue and for the 2003 Pirelli calendar. Her acting breakthrough came in the 2004 films Layer Cake and Alfie. She subsequently portrayed socialite Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl (2006) and author Caitlin Macnamara in The Edge of Love (2008), and was nominated for the 2008 BAFTA Rising Star Award. Her role as The Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) was followed by a brief sabbatical from the screen amid increased tabloid scrutiny.
Miller returned to prominence with her role as actress Tippi Hedren in the television film The Girl (2012), for which she was nominated for the BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film. Further critical acclaim followed throughout the 2010s, with appearances in the films Foxcatcher (2014), American Sniper (2014), Mississippi Grind (2015), The Lost City of Z (2016), Live by Night (2016), and American Woman (2018), as well as the miniseries The Loudest Voice (2019).
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Julio Solórzano Foppa
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Julio Solórzano Foppa is a producer, writer and director from Mexico City. His professional life has been centered mostly around organizing and producing international cultural and artistic events. He has organized several Performing Arts Festivals, among them "The International Festival of the Caribbean Culture” and “Human Rights for the Artistic and Cultural Perspective.” He has been the producer and artistic director of several records, the writer and director of many radio programs, and the producer of two feature films, “Cabeza de Vaca” and “Cronos.” In 2000, he was the first Latin American appointed as a board member of the International Society for the Performing Arts. His mother, Alaíde Foppa, a feminist, poet, art critic and university professor, was kidnapped and disappeared on December 19, 1980, by the Guatemalan Army.
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Lois Sturt
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Lois Ina Sturt was born on 25 August 1900, the daughter of Humphrey Sturt, 2nd Baron Alington, and Lady Feodorowna Yorke. Her maternal grandfather was Charles Yorke, 5th Earl of Hardwicke, and her brother was Napier Sturt, 3rd Baron Alington.
She became famous as the most painted woman of England: at just 20 years old, she had already seven portraits taken, including 4 sketches by Etienne Drian, studies in oil by Ambrose McEvoy, Olive Snell and Gerald Kelly and a self-portrait. All seven were exhibited in 1921 at the annual show of the National Portrait Gallery. She attended the Slade School of Art and scandalizing society, she opened her own art studio in Chelsea. Wyndham Lewis said she was "the most beautiful debutante of her day" and Barbara Cartland said she was "fiery, impetuous, and with dark, flashing eyes."
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Amalie Dollerup
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Amalie Dollerup er datter af to skolelærere og har siden hun var fem år arbejdet som børnemodel. Hun fik også sin debut som fem-årig i Snehvide" på Eventyrteatret. I 1995 medvirkede hun i "Sound of Music" på Amagerscenen og spillede samme sted titelrollen i "Annie". Amalie Dollerup debuterede i filmen "Kun en pige" i 1995, men blev dog mest kendt som Sille i tv-serien "Strisser på Samsø" fra 1997-98. I 1997 havde hun hovedrollen i filmen "Nonnebørn", der indbragte hende en Bodil-nominering. Året efter udsendte hun en plade med sangen "Verdens bedste hund". I 1999 spillede hun Wendy i "Peter Pan" på Det Ny Teater. Amalie Dollerup blev i 2006 optaget som elev på Skuespillerskolen ved Aarhus Teater, hvor hun bliver uddannet i 2010. Hun har lagt stemme til adskillige tegnefilmsfigurer, deriblandt Hanne i "Toy Story", Starfire i "Teen Titans" og Gwen Tennyson i "Ben 10". Amalie Dollerup danner par med skuespilleren Andreas Jebro.
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Tony Colti
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Tony Colti started out in the country music field in his home city of El Paso. He toured the Southern states for two years with various groups, and then turned solo vocalist. As a vocalist he headlined in clubs up and down the East coast, New York, Washington D.C., Virginia Beach, and Miami Beach. It was in Richmond, Virginia, where Tony Colti entered musical comedy. He starred in "Oklahoma", "Carousel", and other musical shows. He also appeared in dramatic roles in such plays as "Street Car Named Desire." Then, I performed in nightclubs in Spain. He did some adventure diving for shipwrecks off the coast of North Africa. In 1960 he returned to the United States to resume his acting and singing career. He moved to Los Angeles and was signed by Paramount Studios where he appeared in the movie "Paint Your Wagon" and "On A Clear Day." This led to television parts, and he had roles in "Bonanza", "Adam-12", "Dan August", "Cannon", "FBI", "Interns", "High Chaparral", "Most Wanted", and "Barnaby Jones". He was a star entertainer on board Royal Viking Lines cruise ships. He made five feature movies in Italy before going to the Far East on the Pacific Far East Lines ships.
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Maria Pia Conte
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Born Maria Pia Vaccarezza in Genoa, the daughter of a carpenter, Conte spent her youth in Sestri Levante before moving to Genoa to study classical ballet. After a few experiences as a child actress, she was first noted as a fotoromanzi model, then she decided to pursue an acting career and enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating in 1962. Conte made her acting debut in 1961, in the Marco Bellocchio's short film La colpa e la pena, then she appeared in a number of films and TV-series, often in secondary roles, being sometimes credited as Mary P. Count. She was also occasionally active as a voice actress and a dubber. She retired in the late 1970s. She was married to actor Giuseppe Rinaldi (1919-2007) and is the mother of actress Francesca Rinaldi.
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