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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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Rachel Leyco

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Rachel Leyco is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, actress, and activist. Notably, she won a student Emmy at the 2013 College Television Awards as Writer/Director/Producer in the pilot web series, "The Sub Club.” She currently holds many writing/directing/producing credits, ranging from short films and web series to TV pilots and features. As an actress, Rachel started off in theatre, starring in Beauty and the Beast and A Midsummer Night's Dream, then began her TV/Film career upon moving to LA, starring in commercials (Reebok, Head & Shoulders), web series (Batman Beyond: The Series), short films (Rise, Highbrow) and indie features (Teacher of the Year). Rachel's TV Network credits include a Guest Star role on NBC's Chicago Fire and most recently Recurring in BET’s Games People Play as Susie Q, and a Co-star in the upcoming season three of Netflix’s Atypical. Her short films (Maple's Tree and Bicultural) have been official selections in many film festivals nationally and internationally.
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Luke Greenfield

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Luke Greenfield (born February 5, 1972) is an American film director. Greenfield was born in Manhasset, New York and was raised in Westport, Connecticut. He is best known for directing The Animal and The Girl Next Door. In July 2007, he appeared as a guest judge on the filmmaking reality show On the Lot. Greenfield directed the critically acclaimed television pilot, Aliens in America, and produced the film, Role Models. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luke Greenfield, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nico Christou

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Nico Christou got the acting bug while performing on stage in A Christmas Carol at the Denver Center for Performing Arts. After enjoying two seasons, his love for acting was solidified. In 2014 Nico was cast in the lead role of Oliver in the independent feature Run the Tide, co-starring Taylor Lautner. A few months later Nico was cast in the lead role of Caleb Burns in Sweet Sweet Summertime, another independent feature co-starring David DeLuise, Markie Post and Kayla Ewell. Nico enjoys school, surfing, singing, hanging out with friends, writing and acting.
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Annie Ducaux

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Annie Ducaux (10 September 1908 – 31 December 1996) was a French actress, who appeared in 40 film and television productions between 1932 and 1980. Ducaux was a shareholder in the state theater Comédie-Française from 1948, and played in numerous stage productions there. She is possibly best-remembered for her roles in such films as Abel Gance's Beethoven's Great Love (1937), Conflict (1938, opposite Corinne Luchaire) and Les grandes familles (1958, opposite Jean Gabin). She was born Anne Marie Catherine Ducaux in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, and died in Champeaux, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France. She was married to the Swiss film producer Ernest Rupp, and had one child the French film producer Gérard Ducaux-Rupp. Source: Article "Annie Ducaux" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Carolyn Bridget Kennedy

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Carolyn Bridget Kennedy is a Canadian actress in film, television, and the internet. Carolyn is the creator, writer, director and producer of the internet Web Series "The Bridget Linden Show" on YouTube, and plays the main character "Bridget Linden". "The Bridget Linden Show" first aired on YouTube in February 2012. As of September 2014, the Web Series has aired 114 episodes, and has acquired over 475,000 views and has over 900 subscribers. She has appeared on Fargo (TV Series), The Right Kind of Wrong (2013), Bluff (TV Series), The Horses of McBride (TV Movie 2012), and Heartland (TV Series). Carolyn was the First Assistant Director of the pilot episode of "Off Screen" (TV Series in Pre-Production, 2014) and also played the character "Lindsay". Carolyn is pursuing Acting, Filmmaking and Producing Apprenticeships. She recently wrote, directed and produced a motivational short encouraging people to follow their dreams called "Why Dream?". It can be viewed on her personal YouTube channel. Carolyn is in pre-production of a new comedy Web Series "Danger Pay" that she is writing, directing, producing and will be starring in.
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Prakash Veer

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A former investment banker at London, Prakash gave up his lucrative job in order to pursue his career in the film industry. Making his debut as a director in 2003, Prakash directed the Vijay Raghavendra-starrer Kannada movie Khushi, which opened to a fantastic start and ran in cinemas for over 100 days. After the success of his debut movie, Prakash collaborated with Vijay on three occasions on movies like Rishi, Shree, and Gokula. His most successful movie continues to remain Milana, which he roped in his cousin, Puneeth Rajkumar, for the lead. The movie ran for 450 days in PVR, winning him the Udaya Film Award for Best Director. In 2017, Prakash directed the action drama Tarak, which features Darshan, Sruthi Hariharan and Shanvi Srivastava in lead roles.
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Brendan Fraser

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Brendan James Fraser (born December 3, 1968) is a Canadian-American actor. Having graduated from the Cornish College of the Arts in 1990, he made his film debut in Dogfight (1991). Fraser had his breakthrough in 1992 with the comedy Encino Man and the drama School Ties. He gained further prominence for his starring role in George of the Jungle (1997) and emerged a star playing Rick O'Connell in The Mummy trilogy (1999–2008). He took on dramatic roles in Gods and Monsters (1998), The Quiet American (2002), and Crash (2004), and further fantasy roles in Bedazzled (2000) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008). Fraser's film work slowed from the late 2000s to mid 2010s due to various health problems and fallout from a reported 2003 sexual assault by Philip Berk, the then-president of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. He branched into television with roles in the Showtime drama The Affair (2016–2017), the FX series Trust (2018), and the HBO Max series Doom Patrol (2019–2023). Fraser's film career was revitalized by appearances in auteur-directed films such as Steven Soderbergh's No Sudden Move (2021) and Darren Aronofsky's The Whale (2022). His starring role in the latter won him the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Canadian winner
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Russell Hodgkinson

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Russell was born on Homestead Air Force Base and grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. His first acting experience came in 7th grade, playing the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. He continued acting throughout high school, passing up a theatre arts scholarship to join the Army after becoming a father his senior year. Peace time provided a unique opportunity as he soon began performing regularly at the esteemed Fort Bragg Playhouse. By the end of his enlistment he had earned his Actor's Equity card and moved to New York City. In 1986 he reenlisted in the Coast Guard, joining the crew of the USCG Cutter Sassafras in Hawaii. During off duty hours he studied at the Honolulu Film Actor's Workshop before being transferred to Long Beach, California where he met his wife actress Shelley Poncy. In 1992 the couple moved to Louisiana, where they became fixtures on the New Orleans stage. They moved to Seattle in 2003, Russell resumed his theatre career and became active in the Independent film scene. In 2014 he was cast to play 'Doc' on the SyFy original series 'Z Nation'.
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Erin Gray

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The very beautiful and talented model, actress, and author Erin Gray (born January 7, 1950) was one of the first models to successfully crossover into television. She is best known as "Kate Summers" on the highly watched TV show "Silver Spoons" (1982), and "Colonel Wilma Deering" on the TV show "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). Many women admired her commanding role as Col Deering, while many men admired her beautiful looks and sexy figure. Erin Gray was born on January 7, 1950 in Honolulu. Gray moved with her family from Hawaii to California when she was eight years old and graduated from Pacific Palisades High School. She was fifteen when a chance meeting with Nina Blanchard, head of one of Hollywood's top model agencies, convinced her what she wanted to do in life. Moving to New York, she became one of the town's most sought-after models, in elite company with Farrah Fawcett, Veronica Hamel and Susan Blakely. TV viewers encountered her commercials for Breck, Max Factor, Clairol, Camay Soap and RC Cola, and a classic spot--for English Leather cologne--in which she provocatively declared, "My men wear English Leather--or they wear nothing at all!" Between modeling assignments, she studied acting with well-known coach Warren Robertson and, when movie-TV offers came in, she was ready. Universal was impressed by her performances on such series as "Police Story" (1973) and "Gibbsville" (1976) and signed her to a seven-year contract. Under that pact, the studio co-starred her as a tough-minded newspaper reporter in Irwin Shaw's Evening in Byzantium (1978) (TV). Her performance scored with both critics and audiences, and led directly to the role in "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" (1979). As a result, she has become a regular commuter between Hollywood and New York, the hub of the magazine and fashion world.
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