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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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Açelya Topaloğlu

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Açelya Topaloğlu (born 19 November 1986) is a Turkish actress. In 2008, she made her television debut with a role in Aşk Yakar. In 2009, she briefly appeared in Arka Sokaklar and in 2012 joined the cast of Eve Düşen Yıldırım. In 2015, she was cast in her first leading role in the popular rom-com series Kaçak Gelinler, portraying the character of Almila. Her international breakthrough came with the rom-com series İnadına Aşk, in which she played the role of Defne. Topaloğlu also pursued a career on stage with roles in the plays Sersefil Müzikali, Temel İçgüdü, Tersine Dünya and Kadınlar Filler ve Saireler. In 2016, she became a judge on the contest Görevimiz Komedi. In the TV series Meryem, she portrayed the character of Derin alongside Kaçak Gelinler's co-star Furkan Andıç, which was well received by critics. She performed different roles in sketch theatre "Güldür Güldür Show" which released on ShowTV. She played as Betüş in "Sihirli Annem" remake of hit fantasy child series (2003-2012). With Emre Altuğ, she played in "Güldür Güldür Show" and "Sihirli Annem" again.
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Reinert Kiil

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Reinert Kiil is a Norwegian director who won prices in the underground Community with movies like the Whore and Inside the Whore. Kiil is the first person who gave Norway a eutectic exploitation Movie with grindhouse aspect on it. He started his film Legacy with 8 mm and HI8 shorts. The shorts have travelled around the world on different horror festivals and won prices. After he made the Movie "the House" he was the one in Norway who made the most movies outside the Norwegian film commission. Christmas Blood in 2017, was nominated for the Melie Price in Lund, Sweden in 2017. Kiil has gone more into art films the last years. With Pandemonic as his last feature.
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Montserrat Figueras

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Montserrat Figueras i García was an outstanding soprano and a leading figure in the performance of a vast vocal repertoire from the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. Born in Barcelona into a family of music lovers, she studied with Jordi at Albareda and later at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis as well as the Musikakademie in Basel, Switzerland. From an early age she performed with Enric Gispert and the medieval music ensemble Ars Musicae. In 1966 she began studying early vocal techniques, from the troubadours to the Baroque, developing a highly personal approach directly inspired in the original sources, both historical and traditional, while remaining independent from post-Romantic influences. In 1967 she embarked on a personal and artistic partnership with Jordi Savall, which was to be singularly fruitful in the couple’s various musical activities, including teaching, research and creation. She developed an innovative performance style characterized by a close fidelity to the historical sources, as well as an extraordinary creative and expressive skill, which have influenced the entire historical music movement.
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Jean Carignan

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Jean Carignan, CM (December 7, 1916 – February 16, 1988) was a Canadian fiddler from Quebec. Carignan was born in Lévis, Quebec on December 7, 1916, later moving to Sherbrooke and then Trois-Rivières with his family; the family moved to Montreal when Carignan was ten years old.[1] As a child, Carignan studied with noted Quebec fiddler Joseph Allard, as well as learning the music of the great Irish fiddlers Michael Coleman and James Morrison and the Scottish fiddler James Scott Skinner. Carignan was a friend of famous violinist and conductor Yehudi Menuhin. In 1974, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada as "the greatest fiddler in North America".[2] He died in Montreal on February 16, 1988 at the age of 71. In 1976, The Folk Music Sourcebook (Sandberg and Weissman) wrote about Carignan : "Carignan's technique is amazing, but more so the joy and energy with which he applies it. There are few players in any music who reach his degree of virtuosity without sacrificing feeling or originality"—p. 84. As a fiddler, he was always aiming for the strictest authenticity in his executions, displaying an attitude of absolute rigor when playing his repertoire of 7,000 pieces learned from Coleman, Skinner, Allard, Wellie Ringuette and many others.
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Karina Razumovskaya

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Karina Vladimirova Razumovskaya (Russian: Кари́на Влади́мировна Разумо́вская), born 9 March 1983, in Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia), is a Russian theater and film actress. As a young girl in 1989, she made her debut in the film "Slowing Down in the Heavens". When she finished school, she entered the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts after which, in 2004, began working at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater. (Wikipedia)
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James Austin Johnson

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James Austin Johnson (born July 19, 1989) is an American comedian and actor originally from Nashville, Tennessee. He has garnered attention for his impression of former President Donald Trump, sometimes being referred to as "the best Trump impersonator." He currently is a cast member of the sketch comedy television series Saturday Night Live, where he impersonates both Trump and Joe Biden. In addition to the films Blue Like Jazz and Hail, Caesar!, Johnson has appeared in the television series Adam Ruins Everything, Better Call Saul, and All Rise. He has also filmed a DirecTV television ad with National Football League veteran Peyton Manning. In 2021, Johnson was cast as a featured player on Saturday Night Live, alongside fellow newcomers Aristotle Athari and Sarah Sherman, for its forty-seventh season. During the season premiere cold open, he portrayed President Joe Biden, and later played former president Donald Trump in the season's fifth episode. Andy Hoglund, who recaps SNL episodes for Entertainment Weekly, said "he is one of the most exciting new cast members in years, a cross between Dana Carvey and Darrell Hammond. He's that kind of talent."
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Peter Howitt

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Peter Howitt is an English actor and film director. He grew up in Eltham, London and Bromley, Kent, Peter used to be a part of the Priory Players in the Priory behind Christ Church, Eltham. He has two children, Luke (born 1990) and Amy (born 2008). He currently resides in Vancouver, Canada. He first found success playing Joey Boswell in the British TV series Bread. In 1998 he wrote and directed his first film, Sliding Doors (1998). Since then he has directed several films, including AntiTrust (2001), Johnny English (2003), Laws of Attraction (2004) and Dangerous Parking (2008) which he adapted from the novel by Stuart Browne, produced and directed as well as playing the lead role.
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Inoue Sora

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Sora Inoue is a Japanese actor and talent. Born in Oita prefecture. He belongs to Watanabe Entertainment. He started playing tennis at the age of 3 and entered Chuo University on sports recommendation. He was involved in the tennis club of the university, and was scouted by an employee of Watanabe Entertainment where he was a catalog model for a sports brand, auditioned for the office, entered Watanabe Entertainment College, and graduated. He's known for the role of Yudai in Ashita, Watashi wa Dareka no Kanojo, and Oumi Mitsuru in Eien no Kinou.
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Georgi Burkov

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Honored Artist of the RSFSR (08/11/1980). Father, Ivan G., worked at Motovilikha in the old factory district of Perm. Started with a worker, rose to the chief mechanic of the plant. The character was soft, friendly. Mother, Maria Sergeyevna, has always been for her son the closest person and best friend. He studied at the law faculty of Perm University (1952-1956), in the evening studio at the Perm Drama Theater (1955-1958). Attempts to conquer theatrical universities in Moscow ended in failure. He worked in the theaters of Bereznikov, Perm (1961), Kemerovo (1963). In Kemerovo, he was seen by a well-known Moscow theater journalist and, returning to Moscow, told the acquaintance of the original actor, Boris Lvov-Anokhin, the main director of the Stanislavsky Theater. He invited Burkov to Moscow, to his theater to the Arts Council. So the 32-year-old actor without special education became an artist of the capital's theater. Since 1965 - actor of the Drama Theater named after K.S. Stanislavsky. In 1970-1971 - actor of the Sovremennik Theater. Since 1980 - artist of the Moscow Art Theater named after Gorky. In 1984-1987 - actor of the theater named after A.S. Pushkin. From 1988 to 1990 - artistic director of the V.M. Culture Center Shukshina. He died in the evening of July 19, 1990 in the First City Hospital of Moscow. The actor was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery (plot number 13). The granite cross on the grave of Burkov is made of the same piece of granite as the monument to his close friend Vasily Shukshin (1929-1974). Chapter 38 of the cycle “To Remember” by Leonid Filatov is dedicated to the life and work of the actor. Widow - Tatyana Ukharova, actress of the Stanislavsky Moscow Drama Theater (04.19.1946). Daughter - actress of the same theater Maria Burkova (05.21.1966).
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