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Blake Boyd
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Blake Nelson Boyd (born October 1, 1970) is an American film actor, comedian, and visual artist who lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana and London. Boyd was mentored by Andres Serrano and Andy Warhol Factory manager Billy Name in the 1990s. Boyd's visual art takes many different forms of expression including painting, photography, drawing, sculpture, video and installation.
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Niki Karimi
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Niki Karimi is an actress and director who was born in 1971 in Tehran, Iran. From her first activities in the cinema, we can name "Bride" directed by Behrouz Afkhami. She has also won the Crystal Simorgh for Best Actress in Fajr Film Festival for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ahmadreza Motamedi and "The Fifth Reaction" by Tahmineh Milani. She has also been featured in "Night Shift", "One Night" and "A Few Days Later" as director. Among her other cinematic works "Sara" by Dariush Mehrjui, "Night and Day" by Omid Bankdar and Keyvan Ali-Mohammadi's, "Who killed Amir?" by Mehdi Karampour and "Democracy In Day Light "by Ali Atashani can be named.
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Patsy Smart
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Patsy Smart (14 August 1918 – 6 February 1996) was an English actress who is best remembered for her performance as Miss Roberts in the 1970s ITV television drama Upstairs, Downstairs.
She also appeared in: Danger Man, "Only When I Laugh", Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, The Prisoner, The Avengers, The Sweeney, Doctor Who (The Talons of Weng-Chiang), Blake's 7, Danger UXB, The Chinese Detective, Minder, Rentaghost, Terry and June, Farrington of the F.O., Casualty, Hallelujah!, and The Bill.
In her later roles, she was expert at playing dotty old ladies, her Mrs Sibley and Miss Dingle characters in Terry and June being examples. Another example was as the wife of the gardener in the Miss Marple episode "The Moving Finger" which starred Joan Hickson.
Her films included Sons and Lovers (1960), The Tell Tale Heart (1960), Return of a Stranger (1961), What Every Woman Wants (1962), Arthur? Arthur! (1969), Leo the Last (1970), The Raging Moon (1971), Great Expectations (1974), Exposé (1976), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), Tess (1979), The Elephant Man (1980) and The Fourth Protocol (1987).
Patsy Smart died of barbiturate poisoning in 1996. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Controversial place of birth: Denville Hall, Northwood, Hillingdon, London, England, UK
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Candice van Litsenborgh
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Candice van Litsenborgh is a South African actress, singer, playwright and photographer. Her television credits include Desert Rose, Recipes for Love and Murder, Resident Evil (Netflix), Vagrant Queen, American Monster and Catch Me a Killer. She is a renowned musical theatre performer who has performed on 3 continents. Previous roles include playing Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors, Trish in Kinky Boots, Jack's Mother in Into the Woods, Emma Goldman in Assassins, Kim Ravenal in Showboat and understudying the roles of Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd, Miss Hannigan in Annie and Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar.
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Edward M. Favor
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Edward Addison Favor (August 29, 1856 – January 10, 1936),
who was billed as Edward M. Favor or Ed. M. Favor, was an American vaudeville
comedian, singer, musical theatre performer and pioneer recording artist, who
was one of the most popular stars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries.
He was born in New York, the son of Franklin Cushman Favor
and his wife Lydia, née Lowe. Suggestions that the family name was originally LeFevre
have been discounted.
He began working in vaudeville as a light comedian in about
1876, and in or before 1877 married Edith Sinclair (1857-1942), who had been a
successful child actress. Billed as Favor and Sinclair, the couple worked
together as a duo and in musical comedies. In 1887 they appeared together as
members of the Edith Sinclair Comedy Company in A Box of Cash, in which he
played an Irish-American character. Despite the popularity of his Irish character
roles, there is no evidence that he had any Irish ancestry. In 1893 he and his
wife appeared on Broadway in Edward E. Rice's long-running burlesque 1492 Up To
Date.
He made one of his first recordings in 1893, of "The
Commodore Song", taken from his previous show, Ship Ahoy. Among his other
early successes were "Say Au Revoir, But Not Goodbye" (North
American, 1894), "Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two)" (Edison, 1894),
and "My Best Girl's A New Yorker" (Columbia, 1895). By the late 1890s
Favor recorded for most of the major recording companies, in between his
vaudeville commitments. In 1899, he was one of the first to record on the
Zonophone label, and in 1900 recorded for the first time for Victor Records. He
continued to appear on stage and, in 1900, was described in Broadway magazine
as "one of the best light comedians on the stage" and, with his wife,
as "one of the big attractions in vaudeville."
He continued to make successful recordings for the next
decade, sung in his "Irish-American piping tenor".[3] These included
comic numbers for Edison, Columbia and other companies, such as "Hamlet
Was A Melancholy Dane", "Who Threw The Overalls In Mrs. Murphy's
Chowder?" (1901), "On a Sunday Afternoon" (1902), "Bedelia
(The Irish Coon Song Serenade)" (1903), "I Think I Hear A Woodpecker
Knocking At My Family Tree", and "Pocahontas" (1906). He also
made recordings with his wife, Steve Porter, and the American Quartet.
He made his final recordings for Victor in 1911, and for
Edison in 1914 when he recorded "On The 7:28" and "Indoor
Sports".
Favor continued to appear in theatrical shows through the
1920s and into the early 1930s. In 1933 he appeared in the Broadway productions
of John Ferguson and Merton of the Movies, and in 1934 in America - Very Early.
He died at the age of 79 in Brooklyn in 1936.
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Matthew Frederick Riddle
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Matthew Frederick Riddle (January 14, 1986) is an American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its NXT developmental brand. A professional MMA competitor since 2008, Riddle made a name for himself by appearing on SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter 7.
Early life
Riddle was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania and later moved to Saratoga Springs, New York, where he attended Saratoga Springs High School. He graduated from high school in 2004 and then attended East Stroudsburg University, where he was a member of the wrestling team for two years. After his head coach was fired, Riddle lost his wrestling scholarship and moved to MMA.
Mixed martial arts career
Riddle's main experience comes from high school wrestling. He wrestled at Saratoga High School in upstate New York. There Riddle was a National wrestling Champion and in his Senior year was a New York state wrestling champion. He is 1-0 in amateur MMA.
Riddle worked as a roofer and trained in Brazilian jiu-jitsu in the evenings. Since Riddle had little to no money, he did not train at a gym but in his apartment. Riddle used BJ Penn's book, Mixed Martial Arts: The Book of Knowledge to help him learn.
The Ultimate Fighter
Riddle fought Dan Simmler, an understudy of Matt Serra, to get into the TUF house. Riddle knocked out Simmler in the opening seconds of the second round and struck him three times in the jaw after he had lost consciousness, breaking Simmler's jaw in two places. It was called the biggest knockout in The Ultimate Fighter history by Dana White and the knock out of the century by Quinton Jackson. Riddle was picked second for team Rampage. During the show's taping, Riddle was given the nickname Chipper after Rampage noticed him always smiling.
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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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Funlola Aofiyebi
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Funlola Aofiyebi-Raimi(FAR) is a professional actor born in Lagos, Nigeria in the mid 70s. The year 1996 paved way for her first paid role although she had been bit by the acting bug from as early as 8 years old whilst participating in school plays after watching her aunt and veteran actress, Teni Aofiyebi on TV. FAR lived and schooled in both Nigeria and the U.K. and is a trained actress. She holds a Certificate in Drama and Theater Arts from WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, LONDON, ENGLAND(1992). To further sharpen her skills and steer her career in a specific direction, she took an Intensive Acting Course for TV and Film in 2010 at the prestigious PINEWOOD STUDIOS, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UK. Her longest running appearance on TV, is on the Mnet (Pan African Network) daily soap - Tinsel, where she has for 10 seasons played the Fierce and Memorable VILLAIN, Brenda Mensah ( nominated at the 2010 Nigerian Entertainment Awards, New York (NEA) for Best Actress in a TV Show
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Mike Angelo
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Mike Angelo formerly known as Mike D'Angelo is the stage name of Mike Pirath Nitipaisankul, a Thai-Chinese singer, actor, and model who is best known for being a part of the music duet Golf and Mike. Born on December 19, 1989, he was a part of the duet with his brother, Golf Pichaya Nitipaisalkul, from 2005 to 2010. He auditioned for the group G-Junior at 11 years of age. Mike speaks Thai, English, and Mandarin.
Mike made his acting debut in the 2008 television drama “Ubatruk Karmkobfah.” He has since appeared in many popular films and television dramas, including the Thai version of “Full House” (2014) and “Kiss Me” (2015). Since 2015 Mike has starred in the Chinese dramas Wu Xin: The Monster Killer (2015), My Little Princess (2016), Wu Xin: The Monster Killer 2 (2017), Delicious Destiny (2017), Mr. Swimmer (2018), My Amazing Boyfriend 2 (2019) and Wu Xin: The Monster Killer 3 (2019).
On February 15, 2019, Mike announced via Instagram that he was cast in the US film The Misfits.
He has a son named Maxwell born in 2014 with ex-girlfriend Italian-Thai model and businesswomen Sarah Casinghini.
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Kim Carnes
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Kim Carnes (born July 20, 1945) is an American singer and songwriter born and raised in Los Angeles. She began her career as a songwriter in the 1960s, writing for other artists while performing in local clubs and working as a session background singer with the famed Water Sisters (featured in the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom). After she signed her first publishing deal with Jimmy Bowen, she released her debut album Rest on Me in 1971. Carnes' self-titled second album primarily contained self-penned songs, including her first charting single "You're a Part of Me", which reached No. 35 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in 1975. In the following year, Carnes released Sailin', which featured "Love Comes from Unexpected Places". The song won the American Song Festival and the award for Best Composition at the Tokyo Song Festival in 1976.
In her breakthrough year, 1980, Carnes was commissioned by Kenny Rogers to co-write the songs for his concept album Gideon (1980), and their duet "Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer" hit No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and earned the duo a Grammy Award nomination. Later that year, her cover of Smokey Robinson's "More Love", from her fifth album Romance Dance (1980), hit No. 10. The following year, Carnes released Mistaken Identity, which featured the worldwide hit, "Bette Davis Eyes". It became the best-selling single of the year in the United States, spending nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, going Gold, and won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year. Mistaken Identity reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200, was certified Platinum, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
Carnes also had success with the singles "Draw of the Cards" (No. 28), "Does It Make You Remember" (No. 36), "Crazy in the Night (Barking at Airplanes)" (No. 15), "Make No Mistake, He's Mine" (No. 51), with Barbra Streisand, "What About Me?" (No. 15), with Kenny Rogers and James Ingram, "I'll Be Here Where the Heart Is", from the Flashdance soundtrack, and the Grammy Award nominated singles "Voyeur" (No. 29) and "Invisible Hands" (No. 40). Her other successes as a songwriter include co-writing the No. 1 duet "The Heart Won't Lie" with Donna Weiss (who had co-written "Bette Davis Eyes" with Jackie DeShannon); it was recorded by Vince Gill and Reba McEntire, and released on McEntire's 1993 album It's Your Call.
Her distinctive, raspy vocal style has drawn comparisons to Rod Stewart. Her most recent studio album is Chasin' Wild Trains (2004). As of 2017, Carnes was residing in Nashville and continues to write music.
Kim Carnes was born on July 20, 1945, in Los Angeles. Her father, James Raymond Carnes, was an attorney and her mother was a hospital administrator. Kim Carnes knew she would be a singer and songwriter from the age of three, despite the fact that she was not born into a musical family. "My mother didn't get my career, and my father, who was an attorney, didn't think singing and writing was even a job." As a four-year-old, Carnes "married" her next-door neighbor musician David Lindley. She grew up in Pasadena, California and graduated from San Marino High School in 1963.
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