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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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Jasmine Trinca

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Jasmine Trinca (born 24 April 1981) is an Italian actress. Trinca was born in Rome, Italy. She began her career in 2001, chosen by Nanni Moretti for his award-winning The Son's Room, receiving the Guglielmo Biraghi prize as Best New Talent of the Year. In 2004, she won a Nastro d'Argento for The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventù). Trinca played again with Moretti in Il caimano (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jasmine Trinca, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Evelyn Venable

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Evelyn Venable (October 18, 1913 – November 15, 1993) was an American actress. In addition to starring in several films in the 1930s and 1940s, she is notable as the voice and model for the Blue Fairy in the Walt Disney's Pinocchio. For her work in motion pictures, Venable has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street. Description above from the Wikipedia article Evelyn Venable, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kratika Sengar

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Kratika Sengar started her acting career with a small role in the popular long-running drama series Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi in 2007 playing the role of Saanchi. After that, she played Prerna Nihal Garewal opposite Naman Shaw in Kasautii Zindagii Kay from 2007 to 2008. In 2008, she then bagged another Balaji Telefilms show Kya Dill Mein Hai playing the main negative lead as Naina in 2008. Later, she did a small guest appearance in the Sony TV's comedy show Bura Na Mano Holi Hai. She also appeared in reality show Lux Kaun Jeetega Bollywood ka Ticket.
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Sunny Chen

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Sunny Chen is a Canadian actor, filmmaker, and singer-songwriter. At 6 years old, Sunny immigrated from Nanjing, China, to unceded Coast Salish lands. They finished high school in Langley, BC. As a teen, Sunny traveled throughout North America to perform at music festivals with their school choirs and concert band. At 17 years old, Sunny moved to Vancouver, and completed their BA in Psychology and English literature at the University of British Columbia. In 2019, Sunny won the leading role of "Ho Shee" in Karin Lee's period drama Ts'ekoo Cha Ke: The Girl with Big Feet (2021), playing a Chinese Canadian immigrant settler in the late 1800s. For this complex role, Sunny prepared her dialogue in Toisan (a Chinese dialect originating from southern Guangdong province), and Chinook (an Indigenous Pacific Northwest trade language). Sunny portrayed "Lisa" in Cheer Squad Secrets (2020).
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Paisley Blackburn

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Hailing from Orlando, Florida, Paisley Blackburn knew she wanted to be an actress from the time she was a child, but she didn't start pursuing her dream until she was an adult. Her father owned an automotive repair car shop, and her mother was a stay at home mom. After graduating from West Orange High School as one her school's valedictorians, she continued her education earning an Associates of Arts degree from Valencia Community College before attending the University of Central Florida where she majored in Chemistry. While she excelled in her studies, her heart was just not in it. She felt a growing urgency to finally go after the dream she had held since she was a young girl, and so, she decided to drop out of college and pursue acting. She signed up for acting classes and began honing her raw ability which led to roles in low budget independent films. Things really started happening for her when she moved to the Midwest, a place she says is full of some of the most passionate and talented people on the planet. She's tackled a wide variety of roles across many different genres though her first love is comedy as she is a natural comedian.
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Mohammadali Keshavarz

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Mohammadali Keshavarz is an actor of cinema, theater, and television who was born in 1930 in Isfahan, Iran. After graduating from the dramatic arts academy, his first movie was "Shabe Quzi" by Farokh Ghaffari. Among the most enduring works of Mohammad Ali Keshavarz, Ali Hatami's "Mother", Ali Hatami's "Kamal-ol-Molk", Mohsen Makhmalbaf's "Once Upon a Time, Cinema", Dariush Mehrjui's "Mr. Hallo", and " "Through the Olive Trees" directed by Abbas Kiarostami can be named. He has also been featured in television series such as "Pedar Salar", "John Uncle Napoleon", "Sarbedaran" and "Khane be Khane".
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Temple Grandin

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American doctor of animal science and professor at Colorado State University, bestselling author, and consultant to the livestock industry on animal behavior. As a person with high-functioning autism, Grandin is also widely noted for her work in autism advocacy and is the inventor of the hug machine designed to calm hypersensitive persons. Grandin is listed in the 2010 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world in the category “Heroes”. Description above from the Wikipedia article Temple Grandin,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dmitriy Maryanov

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First appeared on the screen in the movie "Above the Rainbow". Soon he reappeared on the screen - in the school drama "Dear Elena Sergeevna." The next film with his participation - “Love” - secured the status of a “star” of a new generation for the actor. He started at the eccentric student’s theater “The Monkey Monkey”, which the audience knew more from participating in the television program “Directing Yourself,” where the guys snookled in small television reprisals. He graduated from the Moscow Theater School. Shchukin (1992, workshop of Yu. Avsharov). In 1992-2003 - actor of the Lenkom Theater. Actor of the Independent Theater Project. He was buried on October 18 at the Khimki cemetery in Moscow.
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Andrey Fomin

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Andrey Vladimirovich Fomin (in Cyrillic ː Андрей Владимирович Фомин; in English transcription ː Andrey Fomin), born on February 3, 1964 in Moscow, is a Russian actor and producer, also organizer of events and theme nights1 in Russia, Ukraine and on the Côte d'Azur in France2 and personality of Russian television. Andrei Fomine ends in 1988 the Institute of drama Boris Shchukin (in the class of Alla Kazanskaya) in full period of perestroika. He then studied at the top courses of training of screenwriters and directors in the class of Vladimir Menchov with the realization as a specialty. From 1988 to 1991, he was part of the troupe Vakhtangov Theater. Andrei Fomine is the founder of annual social events. From 1996 to 2011, Andrei Fomine presents the annual parodic prize of the show-business "Серебряная калоша" (The Silver Gala) initiated by radio station Serebriany dojd. He plays in the plays given at the Moscow State Theater; in Figaro. One-day event (directed by Kirill Serebrennikov). In 2011, he appeared as Ancel in Killer Joe by Tracy Letts (directed by Javor Gardev), and in 2014 as Jeanne de Yaroslava Poulinovitch (ru) (directed by Ilia Rotenberg). Since May 2017, he has been playing circus director in Le Cirque by Maxime Didenko, adapted from the eponymous musical film by Grigori Alexandrov (1936). He participates in the Russian version of the show Danse avec les stars in 2011, where he dances with Albina Djanabayeva (former soloist of the VIA Gra group). He directs the program The Great Social Encyclopedia ("Большая светская энциклопедия") on the Russian channel STS. (Wikipedia translation from French)
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