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Duraid Lahham
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Duraid Muhammad Hassan al-Lahhaam is a Syrian actor-director born in al-Kumayreyya, Damascus in 1934. His talent appeared in 1958 on the university stage at the faculty of Science where he majored in chemistry and later taught it. His artistic career began in the sixties, when the director Sabah Qabbani offered him to participate in Damascene Night (سهرة دمشق). At the same time, he formed an artistic duet with the artist Nihad Qalei until the mid-seventies, he also cooperated with the poet and playwright Muhammad Al-Maghut in several successful works. He created the Syrian character called “Ghawwar al-Tawsheh” who became a household name in Syria and the Arab world. Among his plays, as actor-director, are Cheers, My Homeland (كاسك يا وطن), Ghorba (الغربة) and October Village (ضيعة تشرين). Among his television works are Hammam Al-Hana (حمام الهنا), My Family and I (عائلتي وانا) and The Return of Ghawwaar (عودة غوار). The Borders (الحدود) and The Report (التقرير) are among the films he directed.
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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.
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Sheila
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Sheila (born Annie Chancel, 16 August 1945) is a French pop singer who became successful as a solo artist in the 1960s and 1970s, and was also part of the duo Sheila & Ringo with her husband singer Ringo. She also fronted a disco act called Sheila and B. Devotion. Her stage name came from the title of her first release, a French cover version of "Sheila", a hit by Tommy Roe.
Throughout her career, Sheila has sold more than 85 million records worldwide.
Sheila started her musical career in 1962, after being noticed by Claude Carrère, a French record producer and songwriter. Her parents signed a contract with Carrère for her, when she was 16; the contract led to an artistic collaboration which lasted for more than 20 years. In 1995, a lawsuit put an end to this life-time deal. She entered into a long royalties battle against her former producer, which she won.
Sheila had numerous hits in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, playing the typical 'girl next door'. Her first hit was "L'école est finie" ("School is over"), in 1962 (1 million copies). It reached the #1 position in France.
In the movie, Eight Women, Ludivine Sagnier sang her 1963 hit "Papa t'es plus dans l'coup" ("Daddy, you are not in on it anymore"). Sheila's music also featured in the 1996 François Ozon film Une robe d'été (A Summer Dress). The character Sébastien is a fan of Sheila, and Sheila's version of Cher's "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)" was on the soundtrack. "Les rois mages" also featured in "Ma vie en rose", a 1997 gender-bender film, "Love me baby", in 1978, "Attention les enfants regardent", with Alain Delon, "Spacer" in "Podium" (2004).
After more than a decade of targeting the French teen music audience, mainly in French but also in Spanish, German and Italian, Sheila made a change in her career by releasing "Les Femmes (Qu'y a-t-il dans le cœur des femmes)", a song by Christine Charbonneau in 1976. "Les Femmes" climbed to number one and stayed in the chart for three months. "Les Femmes" brought to Sheila a revolution of modernity, making her one of the idols of the French pop music.
In 1977, she started singing in English as Sheila and B. Devotion (in some countries records were under the name "Sheila B. Devotion") and changed her style to disco music. Sheila was accompanied by three male dancers who made up the "Black Devotion" in her routine. She enjoyed international success with hits such as "Singin' in the Rain", "Love Me Baby", "You Light my Fire" and "Spacer" (from the album King of the World, produced by Chic). "Spacer" is one of her biggest hits with more than 5 million copies sold worldwide. According to different interviews, she often said her experience with Chic completely changed her way of working and singing. It was the beginning of a deep artistic disagreement with her French manager Carrère, which made Sheila leave France, move to New York "to start all over again" and studied at the Actors Studio.
After her disco period, in 1981, Sheila (without the "B. Devotion" gimmick) recorded the rock album Little Darlin', produced by Keith Olsen, and was back in the U.S. Billboard chart. The title song became her only U.S. Billboard Hot 100 hit, reaching #49 in early 1982. ...
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Kjell Bergqvist
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Kjell Bergqvist (full name Kjell Bertil Leonard Bergqvist), born 23 February 1953 in Enskede, Stockholm County; Swedish actor.
Bergqvist finished Dramatens elevskola in 1973 and made his debut in En enkel melodi and Jack. He has since cooperated for many years with scriptwriter and director Ulf Malmros. During the 1990s he has recorded several police films playing Martin Beck's colleague Kollberg. He played two different characters in the Swedish horror televison series Chock in 1997. In 2001 he got a Guldbagge for his lead role in Den bästa sommaren and in 2002 was nominated for the lead role Leif in Leva livet.
Kjell was for a time married to Miss Universe 1984 winner Yvonne Ryding (Yvonne Ryding-Bergqvist; today they are divorced).
Once started a textile business with Tarek bin Laden, half-brother of Osama bin Laden.
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Sonia Deepti
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Sonia was born and brought up in Hyderabad, Telangana. After finishing her studies with a degree in computer applications, she worked as a software engineer in an IT company for three years, before stepping into acting. At an event, she was spotted by Sekhar Kammula, who gave her an acting offer, after seeing her performance in an audition. Accepting the offer, she made her acting debut in the 2007 Telugu film Happy Days, enacting the role of Shravs. The film, upon release, became a blockbuster and won six awards at the 2008 Filmfare Awards South, one of which was the Award for Best Supporting Actress for Sonia for her performance that won her critical acclaim.
In late 2008, her second film Vinayakudu opposite Krishnudu, one of her co-actors in Happy Days, was released, which went on to become a successful venture as well. She soon got offers from the Tamil film industry as well and made her debut in Tamil with the N. Lingusamy-directed romantic-action film Paiyaa in 2010. That year she had another Tamil film releasing, Inidhu Inidhu, a remake of Happy Days, in which she reprises her role from the original. Sonia played the role of Samantha's character's friend in the 2011 Telugu film Dookudu.
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Marta Vaarik
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Marta Vaarik (born September 27, 1986) is an Estonian artist.
Marta Vaarik is an interdisciplinary artist who uses painting, video and performance to depict personal stories and bold gestures that challenge cultural norms, breaking traditional narratives. With a high social sensitivity, Vaarik researches issues related to minority rights and works with young people with mental health problems and at-risk behaviors dealing with reintegration. In contrast to the gloomy themes, we see Vaarik's artworks in rather frivolous tones.
Her works have been shown in many galleries, including a group exhibition in the Kunstihoone and the Heit gallery in Berlin, and solo exhibitions in Vabadus, Draakon and EKA galleries. Vaarik has acquired a bachelor's degree in painting and a master's degree in photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts and has experience as a film director. Most of nublu's music videos have been directed and conceived by Marta Vaarik, including "Für Oksana", which was also her debut as a director.
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Skip Howland
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As a seasoned character actor, Skip has played multiple roles appearing in Feature Films, National Commercials, Network TV series and A-List Artist Music Videos as well as Web Series. He has also worked as a featured character in various industrial and training videos. Skip's characters include featured supporting role as an Italian Tailor in the upcoming comedy feature Stealing Pulp Fiction; Co-starring Jason Alexander and Cazzie David. As a Boxing Judge in Father Stu (Feature Film) with Mark Walberg and Mel Gibson, TV Executive on Lilly Singh's late night network talk show (Sketch comedy Universal/NBC), A Biker in Ed Sheeran's Music Video (Overpass Graffiti, A Motel Guest in Justin Bieber's Holy, and lead in a Warner sponsored Ed Sheeran video titled That's On Me. A featured Barber alongside Charles Barkley, Samuel L Jackson, Jennifer Garner, directed by Spike Lee in Capital One's National Commercial (Chuck Cuts) for the 2022 NCAA March Madness campaign. Prior roles include Professor/Teacher/Therapist to Gunslinger and Cowboy to CEO/Detective/Commander. He was a homeless man on the street and in the same production transformed into a successful businessman (Dahr Mann Production). Skip has the ability to cry on cue for character depth. Among Skip's outside interest, he rides a big 'bad' Harley Davidson and is an experienced skydiver with over 2300 jumps. He is a US Army Veteran, an ocean sailor and has taught ocean sailing. He rides his bicycle for exercise and loves to travel. He is a certified SCUBA diver and former private pilot. Skip's white 'Sam Elliott/Wilfred Brimley/Monopoly Man' mustache accentuates his roles and adds a unique element of comedy to those appropriate roles. His a trained artist in improv and also does close-up magic!
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Pete Whittaker
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Pete Whittaker (born 1991) is a British professional rock climber. He is one half of the duo known as the Wide Boyz, along with his climbing partner Tom Randall. Whittaker made a name for himself through crack climbing, including the first ascent of the world's hardest wide-width climb, Century Crack.
In 2011, Whittaker and Randall traveled to the United States, where he was the first to show Belly Full of Bad Berries (5.13b), a popular over-wide at Indian Creek. Continuing on the journey, Whittaker and Randall made the first ascent of Century Crack (5.14b), the toughest off-wide ascent in the world. After initially sending the route with the previously placed equipment, the two of them repeated the climb while placing their own equipment. In 2014, Whittaker became the first to flash Freerider (5.12d) on El Capitan. In 2016, Whittaker completed Freerider's first solo free climb in one day.
After exhibiting the classic Freerider (5.12d or 7c) in 2014 on El Capitan in Yosemite, in 2016 he became the first to climb El Cap solo and free in less than 24 hours. Then, in 2018, still solo, he climbed Capitan and Half Dome in a single day.
On the gritstone, among his big first ascents: Dynamics of Change (E9 7a), Bigger Baron (E10 7a) and Sleepy Hollow (E10 7a). Elsewhere, he debuted Century Crack (5.14b or 8c), the world's hardest off-width, The Millennium Arch (5.14a or 8b+) and Lamb of God (5.14b or 8c), all in Canyonlands, Utah.
Pete's extreme cracking history also includes early ascents of Crown of Thorns (5.14a or 8b+) and Cruzifix (5.14a or 8b+), iterations of the legendary Cobra Crack (5.14b or 8c) in Squamish, Canada, considered at the time to be the hardest crack in the world, and Recovery Drink (8c+) in Jøssingfjord, Norway, his most difficult achievement. to date. In 2019 he shone Ronny Medels-vensson (8b), also in Jøssingfjord, probably the toughest flash to date on a crack. He was also the first person to reach a width of 5.13 with his first ascent Belly Full of Bad Berries (5.13a/b or 8b) at Indian Creek, Utah in 2011. Pete believes he has only scratched the surface of what is possible to climb extreme crevasse.
In 2021, Whittaker and Randall scaled the Great Crack (5.13), a 2,500-foot ceiling crack below a road viaduct in Devon, England. His rise was documented in the short film Bridge Boys, which appeared on Reel Rock 16.
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Dan Claudino
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Dan Claudino (born 7 October 1996) is an Brazilian actor and voice actor, known for his starring roles in dEus (2022), Tem Alguém em Casa? (2022), Amor à Terceira Vista (2022), Pule ou Ocorrência às 4h48 (2020), and Flores Secas (2017).
Born in Santo André, São Paulo, Brazil as Daniel Claudino Batista, is the middle child of five children - a twin brother, a younger brother, an older brother and sister. His parents are Rita Claudino and Claudio Francisco. When he was 11 years old, started attending an acting school for theater actors, where he began his artistic career acting in short theatrical productions. He graduated in Performing Arts in 2018. In 2013, at 15, Dan starred in his first professional theater play Mistério na Sala de Ensaio e Outras Histórias playing Célio.
Dan appeared in some films, including Tem Alguém em Casa? (2022), playing Airton, dEus (2022), playing Gustavo Silva Rossi, Amor à Terceira Vista (2022), playing Léo, Pule ou Ocorrência às 4h48 (2020), film adaptation of the homonyms play, being recorded at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic and having a live broadcast on Facebook, and Flores Secas (2017), where he played Frederico "Fred", a double role with his twin brother Davi Claudino.
In 2014, Dan starred in the third episode of the TV miniseries Extremos da Cidade (2014) where he talks about the importance of artistic production in São Paulo, Brazil. He also appeared and directed several music videos, including Grupo Aspas: Vem Mudar o Teu Futuro (2014), Grupo Aspas: Avulso (2014), Grupo Aspas: Precoce (2014), Y3ll & Sloope: Sonhoz (2019) and Leo Lotho: Olhar (2019).
His past theatre credits include À Deriva (2019), O Último Carro (2018), The Balcony (O Balcão) (2017), 4.48 (2016-2017), Adolescer Indefinido (2016), O Casamento de Mané Bocó (2015), Histórias de bobos, bocós, burraldos e paspalhões (2014-2016), being his most successful play, having performed in several cities in the State of São Paulo and won many awards, Um Conto de Natal (2014), Jovens Opressores (2014), Aquela Água Toda (2014) directed by Cacá Carvalho, and more. Dan also directed the play Pule ou Ocorrência às 4h48 (2019), where he played Margô, this play won an award to be produced.
Dan lives in São Paulo and wrote a horror story called O Assassino da Esquina (The Corner Murderer). He is studying Cinema at Anhembi Morumbi University.
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Robert Quarry
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Robert Walter Quarry (3 November 1925 – 20 February 2009) was an American actor, known for several prominent horror film roles.
Quarry was born in Santa Rosa, California, the son of Mable and Paul Quarry, a doctor. His films include Count Yorga, Vampire (1970), its sequel The Return of Count Yorga (1971), and Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972), in which he played alchemist Dr. Biederbeck pitted against Vincent Price's Phibes in a race to find the mythical elixir of eternal life. Although it is well-known that Price did not care for his co-star - once, when Quarry was singing in his dressing room during the making of Dr Phibes Rises Again, he said to Price, "You didn't know I could sing did you?" and Price replied: "Well I knew you couldn't act." - the two were later also paired in Madhouse (1974). American International Pictures had plans for Quarry to succeed Price, but the decline in the company's fortunes, and old style horror films falling out of fashion, meant that it never happened. Quarry did make further horror film appearances, as the hippy guru vampire Khorda in 1973's The Deathmaster and as a gangster in the 1974 zombie movie Sugar Hill. A third Count Yorga film was often rumored to be in the works, but never materialised.
Quarry's career was further set back by a road accident that resulted in serious facial injuries (in which he was hit by a drunk driver), but he made several memorable guest appearances on TV shows, notably The Rockford Files episode, "Requiem For a Funny Box", as Lee Russo. He also played disfigured gunrunner Commander Corliss in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode "Return of the Fighting 69th". In the 1980s and 1990s, he returned to film, becoming a favorite of director Fred Olen Ray.
Quarry died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 83.
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