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Arturo Soto Rangel

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Arturo Soto Rangel (March 12, 1882 – May 25, 1965) was a Mexican film, television, and stage actor. Rangel was best known for appearing in over 250 Mexican films. Rangel appeared in one American movie, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre which won three Academy Awards and starred Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, and many other successful actors. Rangel last appeared on television in 1963 where he starred in Voy de gallo. He died on May 25, 1965, in Mexico City, Mexico.
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Tom Lewis

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A recent graduate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), where he trained on a full scholarship, emerging actor Tom Lewis is already starting to make an undeniable mark with his captivating performances across film, television and theatre. In his feature film debut, Tom starred as the lead of Redeeming Love, Universal Pictures adaptation from director D.J. Caruso of the international best-selling novel, released in 2022. Set during the 1850s California Gold Rush, the romantic epic is a tale of hope, longing and second chances. Whilst still in training at RADA, Tom was cast in his breakout role in the HBO phenomenon Gentleman Jack opposite Suranne Jones. Other notable on screen credits include: the critically acclaimed AMC series A Discovery of Witches and voicing roles in Ubisoft's pioneering video game Assassin's Creed: Valhalla.
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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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Sergei Losev

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Родился 2 августа 1948 года. Учился (четыре курса) на математико-механическом факультете Санкт-Петербургского университета. В 1975 году окончил Ленинградский Государственный институт театра, музыки и кинематографии. По окончании ЛГИТМиК играл в ленинградском Театре Комедии. С 1980 года — актёр БДТ имени Г.А.Товстоногова. Преподаватель актёрского мастерства в университетском Центре эстетического воспитания. C 1989 года был постоянным участником знаменитого ленинградского театра капустников «Четвёртая стена» под руководством Вадима Жука (вместе с Александром Романцовым, Борисом Смолкиным и Ириной Пярсон).
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Easwari Rao

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Easwari Rao is an Indian actress, who has worked in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam film industries, predominantly in the 1990s. Eeswari is originally from Rajahmundry but she is settled in Chennai. She is married to director L.Raja. Easwari Rao's debut project was Kavithai Paadum Alaigal (1990) an obscure early 90's Tamil Film which never got released in theatres. She got her first major break in Raman Abdullah (1997), directed by Balu Mahendra. Offers poured in for the actress though she became selective and notably opted out of a project title Koottaali, as she felt the role was too glamorous. She went on to appear in Manoj Kumar's film, Guru Paarvai (1998) alongside Prakash Raj, Kushboo and Anju Aravind. Eeshwari also bagged a role in Bharathiraja's Siragugal Murivadhilai with Napoleon, although the film subsequently was shelved after pre-production. In Appu (2000) Tamil film she portrayed as Prasanth's Sister. Now she is into character artist roles in Telugu movies.Her role in 2018 Tamil film Kaala make her strong comeback to Tamil Cinema in which she played character called Selvi as Rajinikanth's wife.
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G.W. Bailey

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​George William Bailey was born on August 27, 1944, in Port Arthur, Texas. Bailey started college at Lamar University in Beaumont and eventually transferred to Texas Tech University in Lubbock; but he did not complete his studies. He worked at local theater companies during the mid 1960s until his move to California in the 1970s. Here he began work on television series such as Starsky and Hutch (1975), Charlie's Angels (1976) and CHiPs (1977). He eventually got a movie debut role in the Chuck Norris movie A Force of One (1979) before landing the role of Luther Rizzo in MASH (1972-1983). In 1993, he returned to Texas to study again at Southwest Texas State University. In 1994, he graduated with a Bachelor's degree of Fine Arts Theatre; and, for the 1999-2000 school year, he was the Artist in Residence.
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Tom Prior

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Actor, writer and producer, Tom Prior, is known for his work on both the screen and stage. Tom trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) graduating in 2012. His acting work includes; The Theory of Everything (2014 / Working Title) playing Eddie Redmayne's son Robert Hawking. Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014 / Twentieth Century Fox, Marv Films) and Endeavour (2014) series for ITV. Tom co-wrote Firebird (2020), a touching love story, based on true events, set in the Soviet Air Force, during the Cold War - in which he plays the lead role. He also produced the film. He recently completed his latest acting role playing Private Love, in Just Noise (2020), telling the true story of the British Government's cover up of military intervention during the struggle for independence in Malta. Tom has starred in London's West End productions of Tory Boyz (by James Graham), Prince of Denmark, and Romeo & Juliet. Tom was selected to train with the National Youth Theatre REP Company, he was one of 15 actors selected from around the UK; working in collaboration with the National Theatre, BBC, Royal Shakespeare Company. He wrote his first short film Breaking the Circle in 2014.
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Edward Holcroft

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Edward Patrick Holcroft is an English film, television, and stage actor. He is best known for his roles in the Kingsman film franchise and in the television series Wolf Hall (2015), London Spy (2015), and Alias Grace (2017). Holcroft is the second of three sons born to Lt. Col. Patrick Holcroft, a soldier and Kathleen "Annie" Holcroft (née Roberts), a former publisher at Condé Nast. His elder brother, Oliver Holcroft, is a former soldier who served with the Grenadier Guards in Afghanistan. Edward was sent to boarding school at age 8, first attending prep school at Summer Fields School in Oxford and then to a Roman Catholic school, Ampleforth College, in North Yorkshire. He initially wanted to become a professional drummer, having attended music school, but switched to acting after appearing in a play at Oxford Brookes University. He then undertook post-graduate studies in acting at the Drama Centre London of Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, graduating in 2012. Holcroft is best known for his roles as Charlie Hesketh in the film Kingsman: The Secret Service and its sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle; as George Boleyn in the British drama series Wolf Hall; and as Alex Turner in the BBC drama series London Spy. In 2017, he appeared in the historical miniseries Gunpowder on the BBC and Alias Grace on Netflix and the CBC. Holcroft acted with Dominic West and Janet McTeer in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar Warehouse.
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Eléonore Bernheim

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Éléonore Bernheim also appearing as Éléonore Gosset-Bernheim, (and Éléonore Gosset 2011 and prior) is a French actress who began professional work in the late 1990s. Gosset-Bernheim is currently starring in the continuing television series L'Art du crime, which airs in the United States and other English-speaking countries on TV5Monde and MHZ Choice. Gosset-Bernheim is a 2003 graduate of the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris. Source: Article "Éléonore Gosset-Bernheim" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Elena Brower

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Mama, founder and co-owner of VIRAYOGA, and co-author of Art of Attention, Elena has taught yoga for 16+ years. After graduating from Cornell University in 1992 with a design degree, she worked as a textile and apparel designer for 6 years, and has studied with master yoga teachers for over 10 years. Through her teaching, influenced by several traditions including alignment-based Hatha and Kundalini yoga, Elena offers yoga as a way to approach our world with realistic reverence and gratitude. Her classes are a masterful, candid blend of artful alignment and attention cues for your body, mind and heart. From the Museum of Modern Art to the Great Lawn at Central Park, from the playa at Burning Man to the Eiffel Tower, Elena is honoured to offer larger-scale experiences of yoga, but her true service is in shifting awareness within the smallest interactions; one family, one household at a time. She’s been featured in the New York Times, Yoga Journal, Element Yoga for Beginners DVDs, ABC News and NBC News.
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