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Daniel Erlandsson

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Daniel John Erlandsson (born 22 May 1976 in Malmö, Sweden) is the drummer in the melodic death metal band Arch Enemy and Brujeria. His early work includes drumming on the In Flames album Subterranean. He has also played for other bands, most notably Eucharist, Liers in Wait, Diabolique, Armageddon (featuring Christopher Amott of Arch Enemy), Revengia and The End. Daniel's older brother is Adrian Erlandsson, the drummer of At the Gates, The Haunted, Brujeria, Paradise Lost and Vallenfyre and the former drummer of Cradle of Filth. They both grew up together in Sweden and started playing drums at a very young age. Daniel writes on the Arch Enemy website: "We grew up together and used to jam on a little kit in our parents basement, he started first and after some years I started too... He’s been a great influence over the years, and if it wasn't for him I probably wouldn’t be playing today." He formerly played reunion shows with legendary grindcore band Carcass from 2007-2010 as their original drummer Ken Owen could not play due to complications from a brain hemorrhage he had in 1999. Both he and fellow Arch Enemy member Michael Amott left the band in 2012, with Erlandsson being replaced by former Aborted and current Trigger the Bloodshed drummer Daniel Wilding. In 2012, he was hired by the band Brujeria, under the name "El Clavador".
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Aya Takeko

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Aya Takekō (竹厚 綾, Takekō Aya, November 3, 1981) is a Japanese fashion model and actress born in Tokyo, Japan. Her hobbies and special skills are reading, cooking, and dressing. Her agency is Plage, and used to belong to Be Natural. After playing an active part as a model, she started acting as an actress from around 2009. Major appearances include The Depths (Ryūsuke Hamaguchi, 2010), In a Lonely Planet (Takefumi Tsutsui, 2011), Since Then (Makoto Shinozaki, 2012), and The World of Kanako (Tetsuya Nakashima, 2014), among others.
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Tarun Chandra

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Tarun was born in Bangalore. He graduated his B.Com degree in MES College, Bangalore. He underwent three months acting course at Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting Institute, before he entered into films. He first appeared as one of the lead actors in 2003 released film, Khushi. After Geleya, Hani Hani's successful run, he was approached for Parichaya and by director Prashant for his movie Love Guru, which won a state award for best movie.[1] He had also acted in a Telugu film Valliddari Vayasu Padahare which was released in 2006.
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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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Rob Jenkins

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rob Jenkins (born 21 May 1975) is an Australian actor. 2001 won a Best Actor Award for The Irving Hand Prophecy which also starred Undead cast member Mungo McKay. In 2003, Played character Wayne in the Australian Film Undead Rob appeared in channel 7's All Saints and later that same year appeared on the ABC's The Chasers CNNNN. In 2008, completed filming another independent feature titled Sharkmen in which he played the lead role of Orca, a hitman. Written and Directed by first timer Jason Gibson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Jenkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Andrzej Filończyk

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Andrzej Filończyk, Baritone (b. 20.10.1994), began his studies in piano in 2000 at the Fryderyk Chopin Music School in Oleśnica. He continued studying the piano at the Ryszard Bukowski Music School in Wrocław where he also began singing lessons under Bogdan Makal. From 2009-2011 he attended the School of Ballet and Dance at the Wrocław Opera. He finished singing studies under Bogan Makal at the Wrocław Academy of Music in 2017. Since June 2014 he has been attending to the Academy of Opera at the Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera in Warsaw to class of Eytan Pessen. During season 2016/2017 Andrzej was a member of an International Opera Studio in Zurich Opera House. He won first price and award for the best polish voice in the Stanisław Moniuszko International Vocal Competition in Warsaw (Poland, May 2016). Since season 2015/2016 Andrzej Filończyk is a member of “GM Art and Music” Agency, represented by Gianluca Macheda. He has attended vocal workshops led by: Matthias Rexroth, Rudolf Piernay (Germany), Ryland Davis (Wales), Neil Shicoff (USA), Izabela Kłosińska, Teresa Żylis-Gara (Poland). Andrzej is the recipient of the of the Minister of Culture and Art scholarships and Hans und Eugenia Jutting- Stiftung Stipendium.
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Themis Bazaka

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Themis Bazaka (Thessaloniki, March 3, 1957-) is a Greek theater, television and film actress. Since the 1980s she has appeared in several well-known and notable films, such as Order! (1980). ). On television she has appeared in the series, The Ancient Rust, The Minore of the Dawn, Rebetiko, Stone Years, Like the Crazy Birds, The Jersey with "9", Hotel Amore, The Tower of Moscow, Signature Priftis, Anatomy of a Crime, Women , Indivisible, Department of Morals , Silver Dinar , Earpickers , The Ridiculousness of It , Absent , Her and Me , A Night Like This , Like Sisters Red Circle , Taksim , The Women of Her Life , Run Away , The 10th Commandment , Marry Me all of ,I Miss You ,Only Two Days ,Wonderful Creatures ,Your Soul ,,Dark Sea ,Fire and Wind ,Milky Way The Witch She has been awarded three times by the Thessaloniki Film Festival, twice for Supporting Actress for the films Rebetiko and The Acrobats of the Garden and with the Award for First Actress for her performance in the film The Stone Years. For this role, she also received an Honorable Mention from the Venice Film Festival.
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Xavier López

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Xavier López Rodríguez (17 February, 1935 - 25 March, 2023), better known as Chabelo, was a Mexican-American actor, comedian and television host. He hosted a children's program entitled En familia con Chabelo, which aired for forty-eight years. He studied medicine, which he practiced for four years in a private sanatorium where he was a partner. At the same time and while still studying, he missed classes in order to make frequent visits to the facilities of the building known as Televicentro, inaugurated in 1952, owned by the alliance of Mexican radio stations, Telesistema Mexicano, which would later become Televisa. There he met the producer, Luis de Llano Palmer, who offered him work as a production assistant, a job he accepted and opted to abandon his career in medicine. At the same place, he also worked as a cameraman and floor manager. This experience was what helped him make the decision to become an actor and later he began to study drama for four years. Later, he would begin to have brief appearances in television broadcasts called teleteatros (of which there is not much information), and in which he would participate as a substitute for actors who were late or absent. He got his nickname after telling a joke about a boy named Chabelo and would embody that boy as a character for most of his acting career. He participated in 10 television programs, 34 movies and 4 soap operas, in addition to recording several albums as his character "Chabelo". In 2003 he was awarded a Diosa de Plata for his artistic career. In 2005 he received the Legend Award from the MTV Movie Awards Mexico. In 2006 he received the Gaviota International Award for his artistic career. In June 2010, at the Lunas del Auditorio Awards, he received the special recognition Una Vida en el Escenario (A Life on Stage). During the last broadcast in 2012, he received a tribute for his two thousand three hundred programs of En familia con Chabelo. During that same broadcast, he was awarded two Guinness World Records: the first for the longest career as host of a children's program (forty-four years), and the second for the longest time representing a character, Chabelo (fifty-seven years), "the friend of all children". On March 25, 2023, Chabelo passed away in Mexico City at the age of 88, due to a septic shock caused by an acute abdominal condition. The following day, his body was cremated and his ashes were given to his family.
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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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Octagon

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A masked mexican wrestler whose name is unknown. A black belt in Shotokan Karate, Octagón started in CMLL as La Amenaza Elegante before creating the Octagón name and look along with then CMLL booker Antonio Peña. The name Octagón was inspired by the Chuck Norris movie Octagon while the look was inspired by Kung Fu & Kato Kung Lee. When Peña left CMLL to create AAA, Octagón went with him. After many years in AAA, he decided to leave after not being used much anymore. Octagón began a dispute with AAA over the rights to the Octagón name. Then in April 2016 Octagón became upset that AAA created another Octagón Jr. which he did not endorse and decided to confront Octagón Jr. at an autograph signing and appereance where Octagón unmasked him. During this time Octagón held a press conference to introduce his own Octagón Jr. He is nicknamed "The Master of the Eight Angles", is 5'8"/172 cms, and weighs 189 lbs/86 kg.
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