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Paca Gabaldón
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María Francisca Gabaldón Serer (Barcelona, 10 de mayo de 1949) es una actriz y presentadora española. Sus primeros años de vida transcurrieron en varios países: Turquía, Italia, Argentina, Chile y Perú. A lo largo de estos viajes, inició su formación como artista, con clases de Arte Dramático, dicción y canto. Fue en Perú donde debutó ante una cámara, en la película Ganarás el pan. Regresó a España en 1967 y, de la mano de Enrique Martí Maqueda -de quien fue pareja durante siete años-, comenzó a trabajar en Televisión española como presentadora, bajo el nombre artístico de Mary Francis. Poco después dio el salto al cine, participando en numerosas comedias desenfadadas. En los siguientes años, su carrera cinematográfica se desarrolló en papeles secundarios de títulos menores, en los que solía interpretar un prototipo de mujer moderna y seductora. Entre 1976 y 1977 regresó a televisión para presentar, junto a José Antonio Plaza, el programa 625 líneas, al que seguiría 300 millones (1978) con Kiko Ledgard. En los últimos años de trayectoria interpretativa ha compaginado apariciones en títulos cinematográficos con su presencia en series de televisión de éxito.
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Stanislav Shushkevich
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Stanislav Stanislavovich Shushkevich (Belarusian: Станісла́ў Станісла́вавіч Шушке́віч, Łacinka: Stanisłaŭ Stanisłavavič Šuškievič; Russian: Станисла́в Станисла́вович Шушке́вич; born December 15, 1934 in Minsk) is a Belarusian politician and scientist. From August 25, 1991 to January 26, 1994, he was the first head of state of independent Belarus after it seceded from the Soviet Union, serving as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet (also called chairman of Parliament or president). He supported social democratic reforms and played a key role in the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
As a scientist, he is a corresponding member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, Doctor in Physics and Mathematics, recipient of various state awards, professor and the author and originator of textbooks and over 150 articles and 50 inventions.
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Lona Andre
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Lona Andre (March 2, 1915 – September 18, 1992) was an American film actress. Born Launa Anderson in Nashville, Tennessee, Andre attracted attention with her first films in Hollywood and was named as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars of 1932. After winning the Paramount Panther Woman Contest, she was signed to a movie contract by Paramount Pictures. When Paramount did not renew her option, Andre worked as a freelance artist. During the 1930s she appeared frequently in films, usually as the lead in "B" pictures, and by the end of the decade had starred in more than fifty films. In 1934 Andre was part of the cast of School For Girls along with Toby Wing, Lois Wilson, Sidney Fox, and Dorothy Lee and in 1936 appeared alongside Laurel and Hardy in their feature film Our Relations. In June 1935, Andre eloped to Santa Barbara, California to marry MGM actor Edward Norris. Andre filed for an annulment action four days after her marriage in Tijuana, Mexico. She was later married to salesman, James T. Bolling, and was divorced from him in March 1947. In 1938 Andre set a world's golfing record for women by shooting 156 holes of golf in 11 hours and 56 minutes on the Lake Norconian, California course. Her best round was 91 for 18 holes and her worst was 115. Her acting career was greatly diminished during the 1940s, and she made her last film appearance in 1949 in Two Knights From Brooklyn. After her film career ended she became a successful businesswoman and never returned to acting. She was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
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Andrew Lamy
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Andrew Arnold Lamy was born August 21, 1952 in New York City. His formal education consisted entirely of time spent in the New York public school system, culminating in his attendance at The High School of Music & Art (1966-1969), where he was enrolled as an art student.
During his teen years he made one short 8mm Film,"Chez Moi", and three short 16mm films: "Out in the Country"(1969); "Big City Blues"(1970); and "Bowery Dawn" (1972).
Both "Out in the Country" and "Bowery Dawn" featured in its cast the legendary underground filmmaker Jack Smith.
"Bowery Dawn" marked the film debut of the actress, Glenne Headly ("Dick Tracy"; "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels").
"Out in the Country" was screened at The Museum of Modern Art, and "Big CIty Blues" was screened at The Rochester Film Festival and at The Whitney Museum, and was reviewed in The New York Times. (The three 16mm shorts are archived in the permanent collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center).
At the age of sixteen Mr.Lamy worked a season as a prop boy for John Vaccaro's Playhouse of the Ridiculous.
At the age of seventeen he worked as a Production Assistant on Robert Downey's "Pound."
At the age of eighteen he wrote the original screenplay for Tony Conrad's & Beverly Grant's experimental feature film, "Coming Attractions."
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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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Georges Livanos
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Georges Livanos, known as "Le Grec", born September 25, 1923 in Marseille and died in the same city on May 21, 2004, was a French mountaineer of Greek origin. After a childhood in Marseille, Georges Livanos discovered the high mountains in Chamonix in 1937 at the age of 14, as well as climbing in the creeks of Marseille. Most of his sporting career took place between 1941 and 1971, a period during which he opened some 500 routes in the creeks of Marseille, 40 in the Dolomites and around twenty in the Western Alps. It also repeats a number of major routes in these last two massifs.
Georges and his wife, Sonia, collect an impressive series of firsts, female firsts and repeat firsts which have earned them the nickname "the most sestogrado couple in the world" (the sestogrado or sixth degree, representing the level of maximum difficulty in climbing up to in the late 1970s). In 1941, Georges Livanos made several notorious first ascents with Gaston Rebuffat, including the Centrale at Grande Candelle, “the longest 6th degree in the Calanques”. In 1945, enrolled in a mountain camp at Jeunesse et Montagne, he succeeded with his course director, Jean Franco, the 3rd ascent of the southern pillar of the Écrins in 4 hours.
In the following years, Georges Livanos frequented the Mont-Blanc massif where he made, among other things, in 1946 the 5th ascent of the north face of the Aiguille des Grands Charmoz, in 1947 the 2nd ascent of the north face of the Dent du Shark4and in 1949 the 2nd ascent of the north face of the Aiguille de Leschaux.
From 1950, he continued most of his alpine career in the Dolomites where he made many first ascents including the Cima Su Alto at the Civetta for which on his return to Marseille he received the Gold Medal for Sports.
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Stefan Edberg
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Stefan Bengt Edberg (born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. A major practitioner of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 and 1996. He is one of only two men in the Open Era to have been ranked world No. 1 in both singles and doubles (the other being John McEnroe). He also won the Masters Grand Prix and was a part of the Swedish Davis Cup-winning team four times. In addition, he won four Masters Series titles, four Championship Series titles and the unofficial 1984 Olympic tournament, was ranked in the singles top 10 for ten successive years, and ranked nine years in the top 5. After retirement, Edberg began coaching Roger Federer in January 2014, with this partnership ending in December 2015.
Edberg first came to the tennis world's attention as a junior player. He won all four Grand Slam junior titles in 1983 to become the first (and only) player to achieve the "Junior Grand Slam" in the open era. Later that year as a professional, Edberg won his first career doubles title in Basel. Edberg accidentally caused the death of linesman Dick Wertheim with an errant serve during the 1983 US Open.
In 1984, Edberg won his first top-level singles title in Milan. Edberg also won the tennis tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics when the sport was an exhibition event and partnered with fellow Swede Anders Järryd to reach the final of the US Open. Edberg also reached the French Open doubles final with Järryd in 1986 and consequently was world No. 1 in doubles in that year.
U.S. fans first took notice of Edberg's professional career when he won the U.S. Indoor in Memphis in February 1985, defeating Yannick Noah in the final. Edberg's first two Grand Slam singles titles came at the Australian Open. In December 1985, he defeated Mats Wilander in straight sets to claim his first major title. In January 1987, he defended his title by defeating local favourite Pat Cash in five sets to win the last Australian Open held on grass courts. Edberg also won the Australian Open and US Open men's doubles titles in 1987 (partnering fellow Swede Anders Järryd).
In 1988, Edberg reached the first of three consecutive finals at Wimbledon, but lost his ranking as Sweden's number-one-player when Mats Wilander had his best year by winning the Australian, French and US Opens, becoming the world's number-one-ranked player. In all three of his consecutive Wimbledon finals, Edberg played German Boris Becker in what became one of Wimbledon's greatest rivalries. Edberg won their first encounter in a four-set match spread over two days because of rain delays. A year later, Becker won in straight sets. The closest of their matches came in the 1990 final, when Edberg won in five sets after being down a break in the fifth set.
Edberg reached the French Open final in 1989 but lost in five sets to 17-year-old Michael Chang, who became the youngest-ever male winner of a Grand Slam singles title. This was the only Grand Slam singles title that Edberg never won, denying him the completion of a career Grand Slam at the senior level, to match his junior Grand Slam. ...
Source: Article "Stefan Edberg" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sabine Gruffat
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Sabine Gruffat is a French-American artist who works with experimental video and animation, media-enhanced performance, participatory public art, and immersive installation. In her work, machines, interfaces, and systems constitute the language by which she codes the world. The creation of new ideas means inventing new ways of using existing tools, crossing signals, or repurposing old hardware. By actively disrupting both current and outmoded technology, Gruffat questions the standardized and mediatized world around us. Gruffat has produced digital media works for public spaces, as well as interactive installations that have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General, Devotion Gallery, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, and Hudson Franklin in New York.Her films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, the Ann Arbor Film Festival in Michigan, and Migrating Forms in New York, the Viennale, MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Cinéma du Réel at the Centre Pompidou, 25FPS in Croatia, and the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival.
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Michelle Wong
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Michelle Wong is a Singaporean actress and host.
After graduating from Monash University, she entered Mediacorp Channel 5’s acting and hosting competition, “The 5 Search” and emerged as one of the Top 5 finalists. Since then, she has expanded her repertoire to comedy and hosting in Channel U’s “Project W”, played one of the main supporting leads in Channel 8’s 170 episode long form drama “Peace and Prospertiy”, and main leads in Channel 5’s “Faculty” and “Code of Law 4”. She acted alongside with Rebecca Lim, Chen Han Wei and Shaun Chen in the highly anticipated 2018 blockbuster Blessings 2.
Besides television work, she had the opportunity to be involved in “Wonderboy” – the Dick Lee biopic in which she played his doting younger sister. She has also dabbled in Variety – participating in Channel 8’s travelogue programme “Take a Break”, as well as roving reporting for Channel 5’s “The 5 Show” and “We are Singaporeans”.
As for live hosting, she served as the 2016 New Year’s Countdown Pre Show host, and “Its Good to be Home on 5” roadshow. Michelle is also the resident host of “The Celebrity Takeover”, an initiative by The Celebrity Agency to share motivational stories and inspire students by holding talks in various educational institutes.
Michelle is proficient in English, Chinese and basic conversational Korean.
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Sam Lucas
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Sam Lucas was an American actor, comedian, singer, and songwriter. His year of birth, to freed former slaves, is disputed, and has been cited, in addition to 1848, as 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1850.
Lucas' career began in blackface minstrelsy, but he later became one of the first African Americans to branch out into more serious drama, with roles in seminal works such as The Creole Show and A Trip to Coontown. He was the first black man to portray the role of Uncle Tom on both stage and screen. James Weldon Johnson described him as the "Grand Old Man of the Negro Stage". Despite his beginnings in minstrelsy, he was vocal about liberating himself from the minstrel profession, and was the only composer of spirituals of his time to present them consistently within the context of jubilee concerts.
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