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Kendall Reusing

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Kendall Reusing is a grappler and a jiu-jitsu black belt under Tom Reusing (father), widely regarded as one of the top competitors of her generation. After a successful career as a freestyle wrestler, 5’9 (175cm) Reusing dominated the super-heavyweight division as a colored belt, before joining the black belt brackets in July 2019. During her first 6 months in BJJ’s professional division, Kendall conquered the International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation (IBJJF) World No-Gi Championship in both her weight and the absolute division (open weight), cementing her status as one of the top tier athletes in the sport.
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Olivia Newton-John

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Dame Olivia Newton-John AC, DBE was an English-born, Australian-raised singer and actress. She is a four-time Grammy award winner who amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles (including two platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two platinum and four double platinum) have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated over 100 million albums worldwide. In 1978, she co-starred with John Travolta in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Grease, which became one of the most successful films and movie soundtracks in Hollywood history. It features two major hit duets with co-star John Travolta: "You're the One That I Want"—which is one of the best-selling singles of all time—and "Summer Nights". She became the second woman (after Linda Ronstadt in 1977) to have two singles – "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "Summer Nights" – in the Billboard top 5 simultaneously. Her performance earned her a People's Choice Award for Favorite Film Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Musical and performed the Oscar-nominated "Hopelessly Devoted to You" at the 1979 Academy Awards. In 1980, she starred with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck in the musical fantasy film Xanadu. Although it was a critical failure, its soundtrack was certified double platinum and scored five top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. She charted with "Magic", "Suddenly" with Cliff Richard, and the title song "Xanadu" with the Electric Light Orchestra. "Magic" was Newton-John's biggest pop hit to that point and still ranks as the biggest AC hit of her career. The film has since become a cult classic and the basis for a Broadway show that ran for more than 500 performances beginning in 2007 and was nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Musical. She helped pioneer the music video industry by recording a video album for Physical, featuring videos of all the album's tracks and three of her older hits. The video album earned her a fourth Grammy and was aired as an ABC prime-time special, Let's Get Physical, becoming a top-10 Nielsen hit. She teamed up with Travolta again in 1983 for the critically and commercially unsuccessful movie Two of a Kind, redeemed by its platinum soundtrack featuring "Twist of Fate", and a new duet with Travolta, "Take a Chance"Iowa.  In 2002, she was inducted into Australia's ARIA Hall of Fame and, in 2015, she was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame. In recognition for "her work as an entertainer and philanthropist", she was bestowed Australia's highest honor, the Companion of the Order of Australia, in June 2019. In 2008, she raised funds to help build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia. She led a three-week, 228 km walk along the Great Wall of China, joined by various celebrities and cancer survivors throughout her trek. The walk symbolised the steps cancer patients must take on their road to recovery. She was a a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues. She battled breast cancer three times and was an advocate for breast cancer research and health awareness. Her business ventures included launching several product lines for Koala Blue and co-owning the Gaia Retreat & Spa in Australia.
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Anthony Ray Parker

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Anthony Ray Parker (born May 13, 1958) is an American actor. Parker was born in Saginaw, Michigan, United States, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. For years during the late 1990s and early 2000s, Parker settled in Auckland, New Zealand and had a prominent career on television in various shows as Suzanne Paul's sidekick. He appeared in the film The Matrix as the character Dozer. In 2006, Parker starred in John Cena's film The Marine. He also appeared in the horror film Dead Air. He has filmed a number of television shows and movies in Australia and New Zealand, including Hercules in the Maze of the Minotaur. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Ray Parker, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Adam Sandler

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Adam Richard Sandler (born September 9, 1966) is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1990 to 1995, before going on to star in many Hollywood films, which have combined to earn more than $2 billion at the box office. Sandler had an estimated net worth of $420 million in 2020, and signed a further four-movie deal with Netflix worth over $250 million. Sandler's comedic roles include Billy Madison (1995), Happy Gilmore (1996), The Waterboy (1998), The Wedding Singer (1998), Big Daddy (1999), Mr. Deeds (2002), 50 First Dates (2004), The Longest Yard (2005), Click (2006), Grown Ups (2010), Just Go with It (2011), Grown Ups 2 (2013), Blended (2014), Murder Mystery (2019) and Hubie Halloween (2020). He also voiced Davey, Whitey, and Eleanore in Eight Crazy Nights and Dracula in the first three films of the Hotel Transylvania franchise (2012–2018). While some of his comedic films, including Jack and Jill (2011), have been panned, resulting in Sandler receiving nine Golden Raspberry Awards and 37 Raspberry Award nominations, more than any actor other than Sylvester Stallone, he has received critical acclaim for his dramatic performances in the dramedy films Spanglish (2004), Reign Over Me (2007), and Funny People (2009). He has also been roundly praised for his leading roles in auteur films including Punch-Drunk Love (2002) by Paul Thomas Anderson, Noah Baumbach's The Meyerowitz Stories (2017), and the Safdie brothers' Uncut Gems (2019), the last of which earned him the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead.
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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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Tony Chavez

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Fond Memory Vacation is the online pseudonym of Tony Chavez (born November 26, 2001), an independent filmmaker, musician, and game designer from Chicago, Illinois. She began their venture into internet content creation back in 2013 when she was in the 5th grade of elementary school. ¨I recall being inspired to start a gaming channel by one of my classmates when he demonstrated one of his YouTube videos to our class", Tony states. From there, she began to make gaming videos under various pseudonyms, and as time went on, Tony went on to expand the catalog of content, ranging from music, poetry, short films, podcasts, indie games and much more. Today, she is in her last year of high school with plans to go to college, and optimistic on putting out more of her art projects in the time being.
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Vanessa Brias

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Vanessa Brias est une fille de l’ombre, qu’on a souvent placée dans la lumière malgré elle. Chargée de production pour le Golden Show, Le Visiteur du Futur, Roadstrip, Karaté Boy ou encore Suricate, elle est à présent directrice de production pour le Studio Bagel. Cette touche-à-tout a plus d’un tour dans son sac : elle peut coordonner un tournage, trouver des financements, s’occuper des aspects juridiques, recoudre un costume et surtout l’enfiler pour débarquer sur le plateau de tournage si le besoin s’en fait sentir. On l’a vue en factrice ninja dans le Golden Show, en maman de Régis Robert dans Nerdz, elle participe au sketch Da Vagin Code avec Bérengère Krief et Michel Cymes, joue la missionnaire dans Le Visiteur du Futur saison 3… Et le rôle de Véronique dans la quatrième saison du Visiteur du Futur.
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K.K. Mahajan

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K. K. Mahajan was an Indian cinematographer who was known for his work in Parallel Cinema. In a career that spanned over four decades, he won four National Film Awards. He was best known for his work with filmmakers such as Kumar Shahani, Mani Kaul, Basu Chatterjee and Mrinal Sen. Starting his career in the late 1960s, Mahajan worked simultaneously in parallel and mainstream films for the next four decades. In all he shot 84 feature films, around 100 commercials and over 20 documentaries and several television serials.
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Yvonne Suhor

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Yvonne Suhor (November 29, 1965 – September 27, 2018) was an American actress. Suhor was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She graduated from Illinois State University in 1985, and later received her MFA from the University of Southern California. Over the years, Suhor has appeared in a number of movies and TV series, most notably as Cicely in an Emmy Award-winning episode of Northern Exposure and as series regular Louise McCloud for three seasons on The Young Riders. She has also guest-starred on Brooklyn Bridge (in a recurring role), Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: Voyager, Renegade, and Sheena. In addition, Suhor has several theatre credits to her name, including Steppenwolf's Grapes of Wrath and Lydie Breeze, and she is a two-time Jeff Award nominee. Suhor currently runs her own Art's Sake Acting Studios in Orlando, Florida, teaching Core Film Acting based on the Meisner technique.
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Daniel Keith

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Daniel pursued his degree in Liberal Arts at the University of North Texas before moving to New York and studying acting and directing at Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Circle in the Square Theater School, and Atlantic Theater Company. He continues to study directing and writing with the Columbia MFA Grad professor, Jon Shear and acting with Royal Shakespeare Company Alumni, Sybil Lines. John D Schofield (prod. Jerry Maguire, As Good As It Gets, etc.) requested to produce his second screenplay, When Hearts Run Wild. A scuba diving show, HD Undersea, was optioned by five networks internationally and later a series about wine. In 2013, his short film, Rambler, won a dozen film awards and was later developed into a 10-episode series. Two of his plays, Love in Kilnerry and The Breaking Room, were work-shopped at Manhattan Theater Club studios in NYC. He was accepted into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts summer residency in London two years in a row. In 2021, he completed his first feature film, Love in Kilnerry, ($1.2 million) that he wrote, produced, directed, and stared in. The film won 45 international film awards and 26 nominations.
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