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Noémie Schmidt

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Noémie Schmidt (born 18 November 1990) is a Swiss actress, most notable for her television and film work, including Henrietta of England in Versailles (2015–2017). Her role in The Student and Mister Henri (2015) won her the Prix Premiers Rendez-vous (Best Newcomer) at the 2016 Cabourg Film Festival and a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress the same year. Her other work includes For This Is My Body (2015) and Radin! (2016) and the television films Daddy's Little Girl (2014) and Le premier été (2014). The daughter of a lawyer and a biologist, Schmidt became interested in performing at an early age. From 2004 to 2008 she sang in the choir of the Schola de Sion (in Valais, Switzerland), developing her vocal technique and training in classical singing. After a trip to the United States, she moved to Brussels where she studied theatre at the Lassaad International School of Theatre, and gave singing lessons to children at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie. She made her screen debut in 2012, in a short film by Ewa Brykalska entitled Coda. Her performance was praised and she won several prizes in festivals dedicated to short films. Noticed for her talent, she turned to television in 2013 with Toi que j'aimais tant by Mary Higgins Clark, followed by Le premier été of Marion Sarraut, in 2014. That year, she made her cinema debut in the feature film La Fille sûre by Victor Emmanuel Boinem. She then won the title role of The Student and Mister Henri, in 2015, alongside Claude Brasseur. The film earned her a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and won her the Prix Premiers Rendez-vous (Best Newcomer) at the 2016 Cabourg Film Festival. That same year, she portrayed Henrietta of England in the series Versailles (2015-) on Canal+. In 2016, she starred in the French comedy film Radin! by Fred Cavayé, alongside Dany Boon, Laurence Arné, and Patrick Ridremont. Source: Article "Noémie Schmidt" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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John Steinbeck

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. (February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath (1939) and East of Eden (1952) and the novella Of Mice and Men (1937). Author of twenty-seven books, including sixteen novels, six non-fiction books and five collections of short stories, Steinbeck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Steinbeck, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vladimir Kulich

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Vladimir Kulich (born 14 July 1956) is a Czech-Canadian actor. He is best known for his roles as Buliwyf in the film The 13th Warrior, Tiberius in the film Ironclad, Erik in the television series Vikings, as well as the voice of Ulfric Stormcloak in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and as The Beast in the television series Angel. In 1995 he appeared as Olafsson in the X-Files episode "Død Kalm." While living in Montreal, Canada as a young adult, he was a professional hockey player. He has often volunteered in celebrity charity games including skating with the Los Angeles Kings Alumni Association.
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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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Murat Soydan

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Murat Soydan (real name Rüjdan Tercan) (October 2, 1940, Lüleburgaz) is a Turkish cinema and drama player. Murat Soydan, October 2, 1940, was born in Lüleburgaz province of Kırklareli because of his father's office. His real name is Rüçhan Tercan. He studied at the primary and secondary school in Lüleburgaz and the liquor in Edirne. He came to Istanbul for the university. While studying at Academy of Economic Sciences, he also finished the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory Turkish Music Department. He also served as a civil servant at Tekel during his university education. [Citation needed] After making his military service as a reserve officer, he won the contest, which was opened in 1966 by "Curtain" magazine, with Tanju Korel and went to the cinema. Murat Soydan, who started his career in the cinema in 1966 with the film "Armless Hero", took part in nearly 200 films. The artist, who also played in series films, has been president of the Association of Cinematographers for a while. Murat Soydan, who was a player of "Jön" in the 1970s, has played a leading role with Türkan Şoray and Hülya Koçyiğit in many films. Murat Soydan published a book about his life and his movies in 2016. Murat Soydan was elected first in 1966 in the contest organized by "Perde" Mecmuası and started filming with "Sleeveless Hero" (1966). Many film ministries such as " The Most Beautiful Woman in the World ", 'Ayşem', 'Lie Years', " Kahveci Güzeli ", " I will not return to you ", " Nisan April ", Murat Soydan, who played in the lead, and appeared in 1969 in İzmir 'Över' garden, is still playing in films and singing. (Wikipedia)
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John Rhys-Davies

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John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor and vocal artist. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, in which he also voiced the ent, Treebeard. He also played Agent Michael Malone in the 1993 remake of the 1950s television series The Untouchables, Professor Maximillian Arturo in Sliders, King Richard I in Robin of Sherwood, General Leonid Pushkin in the James Bond film The Living Daylights, and Macro in I, Claudius. Additionally, he provided the voices of Cassim in Disney's Aladdin and the King of Thieves, Man Ray in SpongeBob SquarePants, and Tobias in the computer game Freelancer. He is also the narrator for the TV show Wildboyz. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Rhys-Davies, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Justin Roiland

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Mark Justin Roiland (born February 21, 1980) is an American voice actor, animator, writer, producer, and director. He is best known as the co-creator of Adult Swim's animated sitcom Rick and Morty, for which he voiced the protagonists Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith, and as the co-creator of Hulu's Solar Opposites, in which he voiced the main character Korvo, until both networks severed ties with him in 2023. He has also played Earl of Lemongrab on Adventure Time and Blendin Blandin on Gravity Falls. He founded the animation studio Justin Roiland's Solo Vanity Card Productions! and the video game studio Squanch Games. Description above from the Wikipedia article Justin Roiland, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marília Gabriela

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Well-known for her intelligence and unique style, the Brazilian journalist and presenter Marília Gabriela had born as Marília Gabriela Baston de Toledo on May 31, 1948 at Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Her first work was on "TV Mulher" (1980), a TV program made especially for woman, in which she worked with the politician and doctor specialized in sex Marta Suplicy. Some time later, she started to build a successful career as interviewer, having interviewed important personalities like Yasser Arafat, to just mention one of the many examples. Deservedly recognized as a skilled interviewer and presenter, she had several interview programs on different TV channels during the years and music especially for her, composed and sung by the rocker Rita Lee. She's currently married to model/actor Reynaldo Gianecchini.
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Erika Jordan

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Erika was born in Ansbach, Germany and family moved to Tucson, Arizona at an early age. She currently lives in Southern California, working as an actress, dating consultant, and certified physical fitness trainer. Erika Jordan is a prolific actress, glamour model, and sex columnist. Erika landed her first starring role at the age of 19 in the low-budget B movie "Attack of the Virgin Mummies". At age 20, she lucked out with a gig as the weather girl for Weekend Flash and then became the co-host for the Playboy TV series "Totally Busted". You can find her starring in various SyFy, Cinemax, and HBO movies such as "Model for Murder "," Piranhaconda "," Celebrity Sex Tape and Avalanche Sharks. Her modeling career has placed her in Playboy Magazine 8 times to date, including being named one of the "Top 100 Most Beautiful Women in the World" by Playboy and Maxim. She has modeled for Lamborghini, Peach DVD, Gear Head, Just Tires, Malibu Springs, Vantage Point, and International Auto Saloon. Presently the advice columnist for Bro My God and Acquiring Man.
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Marcel Ichac

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Marcel Ichac, born October 22, 1906 in Rueil-Malmaison (Seine-et-Oise) and died April 9, 1994 in Ézanville (Val-d'Oise), was a French filmmaker, photographer, explorer and mountaineer. “Grand master of documentaries” according to historian Jean Tulard, Marcel Ichac is considered in particular as “the greatest filmmaker specializing in mountain films in France and undoubtedly in the world” of his generation by Georges Sadoul. First a skier and mountaineer, a great witness of French mountaineering, Marcel Ichac then became, through the diversity of the spaces explored, the filmmaker of French exploration in the 1930s and 1950s (the first two French expeditions to the Himalayas in 1936 and 1950, scuba diving with Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Greenland with Paul-Émile Victor, the very first speleology documentaries in the world with in particular Norbert Casteret, etc.). Marcel Ichac revolutionized documentary cinema with his desire to insert the viewer into the action with an obsession with authenticity. This required, beyond the accompaniment of the sportsman in his effort, technical innovations (the generalized use of light cameras whereas the cameras of the time were generally heavy and fixed), artistic (the subjective camera, mounted on skis, worn on the shoulder, etc., shooting with the mountaineer's gaze) and narratives. Marcel Ichac is considered a precursor of "cinéma verité" and docu-fiction. Beyond that, Marcel Ichac played a pioneering role, both in the technical field (with in particular the production of the first French film in cinemascope, etc.), institutions (foundation of the Group of thirty to defend the short film), that men (launch of Jacques Ertaud, Jean-Jacques Languepin, Gérard Oury, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Enrico in the cinema). Marcel Ichac has received the highest awards in world cinema (Oscar in Hollywood, awarded at the Cannes Film Festival and at the Venice Film Festival, not to mention the festivals specializing in mountain and exploration cinema). Marcel Ichac had more than a hundred ascents to his credit as a mountaineer. He was a member of the Explorers Club of New York, the Society of French Explorers and the High Mountain Group (GHM), as was his wife, Gabrielle Ichac-Lartigue, herself a confirmed mountaineer. When the high mountains were closed to him, at the age of 70, Marcel Ichac threw himself into running and long-distance walking. He regularly participated in the 100 Km of Millau (France), and in the New York Marathon, from which he obtained in 1986, first place in the diamond age category, for the over 80s.
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