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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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Pavlos Kourtidis

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Pavlos Kourtidis is a Greek actor based in Athens born and raised in Wuppertal Germany by Greek parents. His roots are from Pontoirakleia Municipality of Paionia Greece. After finishing his studies in the early 90s in London, England at ArtsEd, he returned to Athens Greece to pursue his career. Pavlos Kourtidis was the founder of PK Theater (2009-2021) based in Neos Cosmos Athens. For more then fifteen years (2005 - 2020) he worked as actor, dancer and choreographer in his own Dancetheater creations (see details below section: Dancetheater Ergography ) in theaters and festivals in Greece. From 2022 Pavlos is also an Audio book narrator (www.bookvoice.gr) Spoken languages: Greek (native language), English (fluently), and German (fluently). Film and television In development 2023/24 "ELECTRA" Role: Orestes (Pavlos Kourtidis) Director: Viki Manoli TV series Channel: ERT 1 State-owned public television Production: Kapa Studios - G. Karagiannis S.A. (2023/24 GR) _____________ KLARA Role: Nikos Director: Lukas Jaworski TV series Channel: TVN / Warner Bros. Discovery Production: Player tv - TVN (2024 PL) _____________ I magissa Role: Ottoman Senior Officer Director: Lefteris Charitos TV series Channel: ANT1 Production: Kapa Studios - G. Karagiannis S.A. (GR/TR 2024) _____________ KAPODISTRIAS Role: Konstantinos Mavromichalis Director: Yannis Smaragdis Film Production: Alexandros Film Co. Ltd. (GR/SW/RU 2023/24) _____________ Rembetis Role: Marcos Director: Jasin Challah TV series Channel: ZDF Production: eitelsonnenschein GmbH (DE 2024) _____________ Past film/TV up to 2023 "To Kokkino Potami S2" Role : Hristodoulou Director: Manousos Manousakis TV series Channel: OPEN TV Production: Telekinissi S.A (GR/AM/TR 2022/23) _____________ The Flame of the revolution 1821 film / documentary Role: Theodoros Kolokotronis Director: Manousos Manousakis Production: Peloponnese region (GR 2021) _____________ Guardian of the Quarantined Ships TV series Role: Captain Kostantis (Pavlos Kourtidis) Director Manousos Manousakis Channel: ERT 1 State-owned public television Written by Alexandros Papadiamantis Production: Telekinissi S.A (GR 2021) _____________ Krisimes Stigmes Role: Radio announcer (voice actor) TV series Channel: ERT 1 State-owned public television Director Manousos Manousakis Production: Telekinissi S.A (GR/DE 2021) _____________ "Agries Melisses" s1 & s2 Role: Lias TV Series Director: Lefteris Charitos Channel: ANT1 Production: Kapa Studios - G. Karagiannis S.A. (GR 2020/21) _____________ "Man of God" Role: Raggedy Man Film Director: Yelena Popovic Production: Tanweer Productions (GR/USA 2021) _____________ "Kala-azar" Role: Security man at crematorium Film Director: Janis Rafailidou Production: SNG Film / Studio Nieuwe Gronden Heretic Greek Film Centre (GFC) (co-production) (ND/GR 2019) _____________ " My name is Eftyhia" Role: Zeibekiko Dancer Film Directed by Angelos Frantzis Production: Tanweer Productions (GR 2019) _________________
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Victor Hugo

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Victor Hugo is a Brazilian actor born in 1995. His father was a shoe salesman while his mother worked multiple jobs In Sao Paulo. At the age of five, Victor's mother remarried, shortly after the birth of his younger brother they relocated to Banchory, a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. At the age of eighteen, Victor relocated to London where he enrolled at the Identity School of Acting where he studied stage/on-screen acting. At the age of 23, Victor landed his first professional acting role, appearing as Junior (on set reference), the clone of Henry Brogan played by Will Smith In Ang Lee's feature film Gemini Man (2019). He will soon appear in a leading role in television series Banged Up Abroad, Season 3 Episode 13, playing the real-life character of Garrain Jones (set to release in January 2020) and an undisclosed role in Black Widow (2020).
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Francis Rossi

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Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi, OBE (born 29 May 1949) is an English musician. He is the co-founder, lead singer, lead guitarist and the sole continuous member of the rock band Status Quo. Rossi was born on 29 May 1949 in Forest Hill, London. His father's side of the family were Italian ice cream merchants and had an ice cream business in South London, and his mother was a Northern Irish Roman Catholic from Liverpool. He grew up in a household with his parents, grandmother, and "lots of aunts and uncles" and was given a Roman Catholic upbringing, having been named after Saint Francis of Assisi. He spent his summer holidays as a child with an aunt in Waterloo, Merseyside. He attended Our Lady and St Philip Neri Roman Catholic Primary School in Sydenham, and then Sedgehill Comprehensive School, from which he was expelled on his last day for having allowed his classmates to deface his school uniform. His desire to become a musician began after seeing The Everly Brothers live on television at a young age, after which he asked his parents to buy him a guitar for Christmas. In 1962, while attending Sedgehill Comprehensive School, Rossi became close friends with future Status Quo bassist Alan Lancaster while playing trumpet in the school orchestra. The two, along with other classmates Alan Key (drums) and Jess Jaworski (keyboards), formed a band called the Scorpions, who played their first gig at the Samuel Jones Sports Club in Dulwich. Key was later replaced by Air Cadets drummer and future Quo member John Coghlan, and the band was renamed the Spectres. The Spectres wrote their own material and played live shows; the line-up soon included Redhill-based keyboard player Roy Lynes, whom they had seen performing with a band called the Echoes who were also based in Redhill. In 1965, the Spectres played at a Butlins holiday camp in Minehead. There Rossi met his future long-time Status Quo partner Rick Parfitt, who was playing as part of another band, the Highlights. The two became close friends and agreed to continue working together. In 1966, the Spectres signed a five-year deal with Piccadilly Records, releasing three singles that failed to chart. The group again changed their name, this time to Traffic Jam, after embracing psychedelia. In 1967, Traffic Jam changed its name to The Status Quo, but eventually dropped the definite article. Shortly afterward Parfitt joined the band, completing the original line-up, and beginning an almost 50-year partnership with Rossi until Parfitt's death in 2016. Rossi had written a song called "Pictures of Matchstick Men", which hit the charts in both the UK and the US in 1968, launching their hit-making career. After some years of minor success, the band reached #5 in the album charts in 1972 with Piledriver. Released on Vertigo Records, it included "Paper Plane", a song penned by Rossi and Bob Young, which was released as a single. Status Quo continued to enjoy major success in the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand through the 1970s and 1980s. They were the opening act of 1985's Live Aid, and Rossi wrote and co-wrote some of their biggest hits, including "Caroline" and the band's only number one single, "Down Down". ... Source: Article "Francis Rossi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Patricia Pillar

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Patrícia Gadelha Pillar (born January 11, 1964) is a Brazilian television, stage and film actress. At 16, she became a photographic model. She studied journalism but gave it up to pursue her dream of becoming an actress. She joined the theatre group Asdrúbal Trouxe o Trombone alongside Regina Casé, before getting her first film role in Para Viver um Grande Amor, alongside singer Djavan. That role granted her a part in the famous 1985 Rede Globo telenovela Roque Santeiro, created by Dias Gomes. Ever since, she has starred in twelve other Globo telenovelas. She has also starred in eleven feature films, including the 1995 Academy Award-nominated O Quatrilho, alongside Glória Pires. In 2005, Pillar debuted as director. Her first film was a documentary about the Brazilian singer Waldick Soriano and it was titled Waldick - Sempre No Meu Coração (which means, in Portuguese, Waldick - Always In My Heart). From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rolf Moebius

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Rolf Moebius wurde am 27. Juli 1915 im sächsischen Riesa als Sohn eines Brückenbauers geboren und wuchs in einem künstlerisch geprägten Elternhaus auf, seine Mutter – sie starb, da war Sohn Rolf erst 15 Jahre alt – war Pianistin, sein Großvater Kammermusiker. Schon früh entdeckte Moebius seine Liebe zur Schauspielerei, als er 15-Jährig bei einer Schulaufführung die Inszenierung bzw. die Hauptrolle für die Bilderzenen "Totentanz" von Gottfried Haaß-Berkow (1888 – 1957) übernahm. Ein Jahr später verließ er die Schule, sammelte erste professionelle Bühnenerfahrungen als Statist am Dresdner Stadttheater, entschloss sich dann endgültig für den Beruf des Schauspielers. Er erhielt ein Stipendium an der "Staatlichen Schauspielschule" in Berlin, 1937 machte er dort seinen Abschluss. Bereits 1936 hatte er mit einer kleinen Rolle in Carl Froehlichs Drama " Traumulus"1) neben Emil Jannings und Hilde Weissner erste Erfahrungen vor der Kamera gesammelt, auch auf der Bühne konnte er sich im gleichen Jahr in dem von Gustaf Gründgens inszenierten "Faust II" beweisen, als Hans Quest, der die Rolle des Euphorion übernehmen sollte, plötzlich wegen Krankheit ausgefallen war und Gründgens in der Schauspielschule einen Ersatz suchte – Moebius erhielt den Part.
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Gilby Clarke

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Gilbert "Gilby" J. Clarke (born August 17, 1962) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer best known for a 3-year tenure as the rhythm guitarist of Guns N' Roses, replacing Izzy Stradlin in 1991 during the Use Your Illusion Tour. Following his departure from the group, Clarke went on to forge a solo career as well playing guitar with Slash's Snakepit, Kat Men, Heart, Nancy Sinatra, Kathy Valentine (of the Go-Go's), MC5 and forming his own group Rock Star Supernova with members of Metallica and Mötley Crüe. Clarke's production work includes albums by L.A. Guns, Bullets and Octane, The Bronx and Vains of Jenna.
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Nikos Rizos

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Nikos Rizos (Greek: Νίκος Ρίζος; 30 September 1924 – 20 April 1999, in Athens) was a Greek actor. He took part in many Greek comedies in cinema. Rizos began his career with Anthropoi, anthropoi in 1948 at the Metropolitan Theatre. He founded his own company in 1959 which he co-ran from 1961 with Vasilis Avlonitis and Georgia Vasileiadou. He appeared in various comedies in Greece and Germany, performing for the immigrant Greeks abroad. In 1986, he appeared at the Astor Theatre on Stadiou Street which he ran from the artistic performance until 1990. Rizos changed and he was a theatrical entrepreneur for 27 years. He starred in around 300 comedy films including To soferaki (with Giorgos Tzavellas), O thisavros tou makariti (with Nikos Tsiforos), O Klearchos, i Marina kai o kontos, Simoria eraston, and others. On television, he starred alongside Martha Karagianni in O dromos (The Road). In 1999, he appeared in the television series of Tassos Athanassiadis's I aithousa tou thronou. It was his last appearance on television.
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Mary Anthony

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Originally from Oklahoma, LA-based actor Mary Anthony graduated with a B.F.A. in Acting from the University of Oklahoma. While in school, she was selected to compete in the American College Theater Festival two years in a row and was an Irene Ryan Acting nominee both years. She was also selected to study at the Terry Schreiber Studio (NYC) in their On Camera Intensive. Additionally, she wrote and directed the short film, VENDING MACHINE, which was selected for the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival as well as Redbud Film Festival and Deadcenter Film Festival. Once she relocated to LA, she started studying at Upright Citizens Brigade and Playhouse West. She played Amy in the West Coast Premiere of TAPE at the Playhouse West theater. She performs weekly on the UCB house Harold team, LEROY. Additionally, her all female indie team, FASHION SHOW AT LUNCH, has hosted shows at UCB and performed at San Francisco Sketch Fest and the LA Indie Improv Festival. Her indie team, SWIMMING LESSONS, has performed at the Del Close Marathon (NYC) and the LA Indie Improv Festival and can be seen hosting their show COMMUNITY POOL at the Clubhouse Mainstage and UCB's inner sanctum stage. She's also been featured on the podcasts "I'm Too Effing High", "The Meat", and "Extra,Extra".
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Ellen Crawford

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Ellen Crawford is an American actress. Most recently, she co-starred as Edith, in The Man from Earth. She also played Nurse Lydia Wright on ER from 1994–2003 and then again in 2009 for the series finale. She has performed on stage as well, most recently as Nora Melody in "A Touch of the Poet" by Eugene O'Neil, for Friendly Fire Theatre in New York City. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Crawford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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