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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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Marija Karan

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Marija Karan (Serbian Cyrillic: Марија Каран; born 29 April 1982) is a Serbian actress. She had her film debut in Kad porastem biću Kengur and appeared after this in Jesen stiže, dunjo moja. She was born in Belgrade. In 2007, Karan appeared alongside Nikola Kojo and Bogdan Diklić in the Serbian thriller Četvrti čovek (The fourth Man) by Dejan Zečević and alongside Branko Tomović in the British Drama Taximan by Henrik Norrthon. Marija Karan was also introduced in a FOX TV Series called Odd Mom Out. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Luis Guzmán

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Luis Guzmán (born August 28, 1956) is an actor from Puerto Rico. He is known for his character work. For much of his career, his squat build, wolfish features, and brooding countenance have garnered him roles largely as sidekicks, thugs, or policemen, but his later career has seen him move into more mainstream roles. He is a favorite of director Steven Soderbergh, who cast him in Out of Sight, The Limey, and Traffic, and Paul Thomas Anderson, who cast him in Boogie Nights, Magnolia and Punch-Drunk Love. He also voiced Ricardo Diaz in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
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Dan Barry

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An American professional wrestler best known for his appearances with New York Wrestling Connection, Combat Zone Wrestling, Beyond Wrestling, House of Hardcore among others. n January 2003, Barry made his USA Pro Wrestling debut as part of a USA Pro gauntlet title nine man gauntlet match. Barry made his New York Wrestling Connection in February 2003 defeating Armand DeMuerto. Later that same night, Barry defeated Johnny Ova to become the NYWC Light Heavyweight Champion. In late 2004, Barry defeated Jay Lethal in a NYWC light heavyweight championship contendership match. The next month both Lethal and Barry lost to Joey Matthews in a three-way title match for the then vacant NYWC Heavyweight Championship. In early 2005, Barry was involved in a four-way NYWC Championship match, losing to Joey Matthews. In 2005, Ken Scampi and Dan Barry formed Team Tremendous. Later in 2005, Team Tremendous defeated The Dead Presidents and Brett Matthews and Brian Myers to become the New York Wrestling Connection Tag Team Champions for the first time. The duo lost the belts to Myers and Matthews in early 2006. In 2007, Barry won the NYWC Hi-Fi Championship by defeating plaZma. Dan Barry wrestled against Joey Braggiol in 2008 in a losing effort. This was his last match for NYWC until 2012 when he returned and took part in a battle royal.
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Ewa Partum

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Ewa Partum (born 1945, Grodzisk Mazowiecki near Warsaw, Poland) is a poetry artist, performance artist, filmmaker, mail artist, and conceptual artist. Part of the first generation of Polish conceptual artists, Ewa Partum paved the way for feminist performance and body art, testifying to the political activism of the former Eastern Europe. Affirming that “any act of thought is an act of art”, she focuses on the political economy of signs and the materialisation of language in her actions and installations in public space, as well as in her mail art or visual or “active” poetry. In 1983, after finally obtaining her visa, she left Poland and moved to Berlin. In the early 1970s, after studies in Łódź and Warsaw, she founded the Adres gallery in her own apartment. The gallery remained active for five years and was dedicated to conceptual art, mail art, and theory. In the same period, she created her first installations and actions connected to poetry, in public space, or a natural environment: in The Legality of Space (1971), and Poem by Ewa (1971), the letters her poems form are cut out and thrown into the sea or the street.
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Konstantin Murzenko

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Konstantin Vladislavovich Murzenko (born November 26, 1969, Leningrad) is a Russian film director, screenwriter and actor. He studied at the medical school, at the Faculty of Journalism of St. Petersburg State University. Worked as a paramedic at the ambulance station, assistant to the director on the LSDF, editor, director and DJ on the radio, a television journalist, wrote articles about cinema in newspapers and magazines. In his scripts films "Hard Time" (1997), "Mama, Do not Grieve" (1997), "The body will be buried, and the senior midshipman will sing" (1998). The author of the plot of the film "Ghoul" (1997). As an actor gained popularity after a small role as Fascist in the movie "Brother 2" (2000). In 2001, he made his debut as a director, making his own screenplay for the film "April". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Halldór Laxness

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Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer and winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote novels, poetry, newspaper articles, essays, plays, travelogues and short stories. Writers who influenced Laxness included August Strindberg, Sigmund Freud, Knut Hamsun, Sinclair Lewis, Upton Sinclair, Bertolt Brecht and Ernest Hemingway. Description above from the Wikipedia article Halldór Laxness, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Tove Jansson

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Tove Marika Jansson was a Swedish-speaking Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. For her contribution as a children's writer she received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 1966. Brought up by artistic parents, Jansson studied art from 1930 to 1938 in Stockholm, Helsinki and then Paris. Her first solo art exhibition was in 1943. At the same time, she was writing short stories and articles for publication, as well as creating the graphics for book covers and other purposes. She continued to work as an artist for the rest of her life, alongside her writing. Jansson is best known as the author of the Moomin books for children. The first such book, The Moomins and the Great Flood, appeared in 1945, though it was the next two books, Comet in Moominland and Finn Family Moomintroll, published in 1946 and 1948 respectively, that brought her fame. Starting with the semi-autobiographical Bildhuggarens dotter (Sculptor's Daughter) in 1968, she wrote six novels and five books of short stories for adults.
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Amanda Lehan-Canto

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Amanda Lehan-Canto is originally from Boston and began her career working in the newsroom as a writer for NBC 7 News. She also studied for a year at Improv Boston. After realizing she loved performing rather than reporting on snow she quickly moved to L.A. She became a currently a member of The Groundlings Sunday Company. She also is a current performer on UCB's Maude Team, "Smoke Show". She has been a writer and creator for WhoHaHa and Funny or Die. You can also see her as a cast member in Youtube's SMOSH show and in commercials like Old Navy, T-Mobile and the new host of Amazon Alexa.
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Elizaveta Arzamasova

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Elizaveta Nikolaevna Arzamasova (Russian: Елизаве́та Никола́евна Арзама́сова), or less formally Liza Arzamasova (Russian: Ли́за Арзама́сова); born March 17, 1995; is a Russian actress of theater, also known as TV-show anchorwoman. Elizaveta Arzamasova was born in Moscow. In four years, she began to act in films. Liza played the main role in the musical "Annie" (director – Nina Chusova). In 2004, at the 9th theater festival Moscow Debuts the young actress was awarded the audience award for this role. At the same time Liza was engaged in the music studio at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts - GITIS. Then Liza's mother, Yuliya Arzamasova, placed on one of the sites photos and summaries of Liza. She got a call from the Moscow Variety Theatre, asked about her daughter and invited to audition. In 2004, at the 9th theater festival "Moscow debuts" the young actress was awarded for the role of the Audience Choice Award. Liza became popular after the TV series Daddy's Daughters, where she played one of the main roles – Galina Vasnetsova. In January 30, 2010, at age of 14 she played the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet on the stage of Moscow C.S. Stanislavski Drama Theatre. (Wikipedia)
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