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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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Tom Butler

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Tom Butler is a Canadian television and film actor. He best known for his television role on the science fiction series Sliders as Michael Mallory, the father of Quinn Mallory in the pilot episode, and reprised his role in the season 2 episode Gillian of the Spirits. Butler appeared in Hostage Rescue Team (TV movie, 2001) as Special Agent David Nelson. Butler has appeared in a number of films, including Renegades (1989), Ernest Rides Again (1993), First Target (2000), Freddy vs. Jason (2003) and Everything Gone Green (2006). Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom Butler (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Janusz Monarcha

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Janusz Monarcha was born in Poland, studied at the University of Music in Wroclaw and won several singing competitions. He was first engaged at the Wroclaw Opera House. In 1986 he came to the Wiener Kammeroper, one year later Janusz Monarcha was already member of the ensemble of the Volksoper. Guest appearances led him to France, Monte Carlo, Hungary and the USA. Since 1991 he is member of the ensemble of the Wiener Staatsoper and has sung e.g. Fasolt (Das Rheingold), Oberpriester (Hérodiade), König (Aida), Pope (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk), Lord Valton (I puritani), Il Commendatore (Don Giovanni), Albert (La Juive), Daland (Fliegende Holländer), Geronte (Manon Lescaut), Colas (Bastien und Bastienne), Colline, Basilio (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Kardinal Alfonso (Gesualdo), Oberpriester (Nabucco), Dorfrichter (Jen˚ufa), Bailli (Werther), Angelotti (Tosca), Reinmar von Zweter (Tannhäuser), Vanuzzi (Schweigsame Frau), Warlaam (Boris Godunow), Mönch (Don Carlo), Rocco (Fidelio), Pistola (Falstaff) and Pfarrer/Dachs (Schlaues Füchslein).     http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/Content.Node/home/kuenstler/saengerinnen/Monarcha.en.php
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Kristina Petina

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Kristina Petina (born September 30, 1987 in Tashkent) is an Estonian lingerie model. She studied at the 21st secondary school in Tallinn and graduated from Euro University with a degree in interior architecture. She started modeling at the age of 16. She has been the advertising face of BonBon Lingerie, Estonia's best-known underwear brand, for a long time. Among domestic brands, she has represented the clothing company OTTO, the jewelry brand Expressions and the laundry boutique Intimo. Among foreign brands, she has represented the underwear brand Pleasure State, Sarrieri, Vivienne Westwood. In 2009, she was the cover girl of the June issue of Playboy Estonian magazine, in the same year she won the Playboy beauty of the year title. A photo series of her was also published in the Bulgarian and Hungarian Playboy magazine. Her photos have been published in magazines Stiil, Ledi, Avenüü. She was Ravshana Kurkova's body double in the feature film "The Temptation of St. Tony". In 2011, she represented Estonia at the Miss Model of the World pageant held in China. She has participated in many fashion weeks and fashion shows, including Tallinn Fashion Week, Fashion Palace, Moët Chandon Fashion Show & Dinner Party. In 2012, she participated in the famous fashion show Defile na Neve in St. Petersburg.
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Marco Ferreri

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Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said: The Italian cinema has lost one of its most original artists, one of its most personal authors (...) No one was more demanding nor more allegorical than he in showing the state of crisis of contemporary man. His best known film is La Grande Bouffe, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Ugo Tognazzi. His 1979 film Chiedo asilo won him the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1991, his film La casa del sorriso won the Golden Bear at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marco Ferreri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Paula Tsui

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Tsui is the oldest of six children, with three brothers and two sisters. After graduating high school, she worked at her father's salon as a nail technician and hairstylist. According to HK magazine, Paula Tsui was born in Hubei, but her family moved to Hong Kong when she was still a baby, therefore, all of her memory is about Hong Kong. Tsui recalls her childhood as being a mischievous girl. She thinks of herself as hard to control and was definitely not a good kid. For example, she only enjoyed music classes, because she thought singing was so natural to her. However, when her class teacher asked her to sing the school hymns, she rejected and ended up singing pop songs. She believes that her rebellious attitude came about because she never knew what she wanted to do, and that makes her memory of youth so unclear, she only remembers frequently changing jobs. The thing that changed her life was a singing contest when Tsui entered one in 1965. Initially, she was reluctant to join the competition, but her friends kept persuading her and said that they would not participate without Tsui.[4] Then finally, Tsui won that contest came out the champion.[4] At the same time, Tsui's parents did not approve of her becoming a singer, because they thought musically performing was a shameful career, and that is the reason why Tsui refused to let her family see her performances.[4] However, Tsui promised her family that she would not change her mind and principles. Finally, her family agreed with her choice to become a singer. Tsui felt so grateful to her parents' reluctance and from it came a promise with her family to become a successful singer. Show business had a lot of temptations and this promise kept a firm focus on her singing. Tsui is private about her personal life, especially in regards to her romantic life. It was not until the 1990s that was discovered that she had been secretly married to Hong Kong radio host and legislator Albert Cheng between 1975 and 1979. Tsui was then already a renowned singer, while Cheng was still relatively unknown at that time. Tsui currently resides in Canada.
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Dominique Valera

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Dominique Valera (born June 14, 1947) is a French kickboxer and karateka, based in Lyon. He has a 9th Dan black belt in karate and is the winner of multiple European Karate Championships. Since retiring from competitive karate Dominique Valera has starred in French movies such as Let Sleeping Cops Lie. From a family of Spanish immigrants, Dominique Valera began karate shotokan in 1960, after six years of judo. He is a team world champion and has never become individual world champion following a disqualification due to a disagreement with a referee at the 1975 World Karate Championships in Long Beach, California. The matter then flows far more ink than blood, and the champion suffers immediate consequences. He is excluded from the French federation held by Mr. Delcourt and can not reinstate him until much later when his friend Francis Didier will be the president by integrating karate contact as new section. Five years earlier, he won one of the first two individual bronze medals in the world karate championships, finishing third with Tonny Tullener of the United States at the end of the men's ippon championship world of karate 1970 in Tokyo, Japan In 1975 Dominique Valera entered Full Contact Karate and fought the likes of Bill Wallace and Jeff Smith. He finished his full contact karate career with 14 victories and 4 defeats. Source: Article "Dominique Valera" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Soundarya Rajinikanth

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Soundarya Rajinikanth Ashwin (born 20 September 1984 as Shaku Bai Rao Gaekwad) is a film graphic designer, producer and director who primarily works in the Tamil film industry. She is the founder and owner of Ocher Picture Productions. Soundarya began her career in films as a graphic designer. For those starring her father Rajinikanth, she designed the title sequences. She became a noted film producer through Goa (2010). She will be making her debut as a director in the film Kochadaiyaan.
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Anthony Chan Yau

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Anthony Chan Yau is a Hong Kong actor and the drummer for the band Wynners. In 1981, Chan formed a film production company with Kenny Bee and produced Monkey Business. Chan joined Shaw Brothers in 1983 and produced his remarkable project Let’s Make Laugh, which was directed by Alfred Cheung. Then, Cheung and Chan formed a production company afterwards. One of Chan’s most ambitious projects was A Fishy Story, starring by Kenny Bee and Maggie Cheung Man-yuk, in which Maggie Cheung Man-yuk won the best actress award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. In recent years, Chan emigrated to US and retired from the film industry. Chan now is working in China for his business.
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Fernanda Paes Leme

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is a Brazilian presenter and actress . In 1998, she debuted on the TV Globo series Sandy & Júnior , playing the spoiled and extravagant Patty, the comic antagonist of the story, who always failed her in funny ways. [ 1 ] During this time she received proposals from Manoel Carlos to play the character Íris in Laços de Família and the protagonist of the miniseries Presença de Anita , but she was prevented by the series' management from leaving him and accepting the invitations. [ 2 ] In 2003 she debuted her first soap opera, Agora É que São Elas as Karina, joining the third season of the children's series Sítio do Picapau Amarelo in the same year as the journalist Clarice. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2004 she entered the second phase of the soap opera Da Cor do Pecado playing Nieta Bazarov, one of the three rival mat fighting sisters of the Sardinha family. [ 5 ] But it was in 2005 that she gained prominence when she faced her first dramatic character, the illegal immigrant Rosário em América , who crossed the Texas desert in search of the American dream, taking her younger sister with her. [ 6 ] In 2007 she played the flirtatious Teresinha in Desire Proibido , in addition to making her film debut in the films O Homem que Desafio o Diabo and Podecrer! . [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In 2009 she had the opportunity to mature on stage in the role of Maria Rosa in Paraíso , a girl who graduated from the big city and returned to Pantanal to help her family manage their farms and political life. [ 9 ] In 2011 she returned to the nine o'clock soap operas as the provocative Irene Brandão, in Insensato Coração , who seduced the protagonist of the plot with her sensuality. [ 10 ] In 2012 she played Márcia, a lieutenant in the Brazilian Army in Salve Jorge , which formed the plot's love triangle. [ 11 ] In 2013 he also made his technical debut behind the camera, directing the music videos "Como É Grande o Meu Amor por Você", by Lulu Santos , and " Tempo em Movimento ", by Luiza Possi and Lulu Santos – this according to the who was also a screenwriter. [ 12 ] She debuted as a presenter in 2014, in the first season of the talent show Superstar . [ 13 ] Soon after, she signed with GNT and starred in the series Amor Veríssimo and Odeio Segundas in the following years. [ 14 ] She announced her departure from Rede Globo on May 17, 2016, after 18 years at the broadcaster. She then signed a contract with Band to focus on her career as a presenter and present the Brazilian version of The X Factor . [ 15 ] With the announcement that the second season of X Factor Brasil would not take place, Fernanda left the network on July 8, 2017.
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