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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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Andrey Sukhov
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Andrey Sukhov was born on November 26, 1972, in Moscow.
After receiving his high school diploma in 1989, he enrolled in the acting faculty of the Moscow Art Theatre School-Studio, where he was accepted into the class of People's Artist of Russia, Yuri Yeremin, who at different times was the chief director first at the Central Academic Theater of the Soviet Army, and then at the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin.
Sukhov joined the troupe of the latter immediately after graduation and has been working there ever since, although Yuri Yeremin, who hired him, moved to the Moscow Sovremennik Theater in 2000.
Andrey himself has also tried his hand at directing plays, taking on the role of director in 2005 at the Moscow Theatre of Music and Drama under the leadership of Stas Namin.
In 2021, at the Pushkin Theater, he could be seen playing the roles of Count Dorimon in "False Confessions," Arthur Berling in "An Inspector Calls," Ralph in "Shakespeare in Love," Gaev in "The Cherry Orchard," Antonio in "The Marriage of Figaro," Captain Smollett in "Treasure Island," and so on.
Andrey has also been acting in films for a long time.
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Bonnie Raitt
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Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter, musician, and activist.
During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of roots-influenced albums that incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country.
In 1989, after several years of critical acclaim but little commercial success, she had a major hit with the album Nick of Time.
The following two albums, Luck of the Draw (1991) and Longing in Their Hearts (1994), were also multimillion sellers, generating several hit singles, including "Something to Talk About", "Love Sneakin' Up on You", and the ballad "I Can't Make You Love Me" (with Bruce Hornsby on piano).
Raitt has received 10 Grammy Awards.
She is listed as number 50 in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time" and number 89 on the magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".
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Michael Papajohn
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Michael Papajohn is an American actor, director, writer, stuntman and producer.
He is best known for his roles in Law and Order, The Amazing Spider-Man, You Don't Mess With The Cohan, Spider-Man, Mississippi Grind and in Rachel Weisz' film of Jason Bourne's enemy film, The Bourne Legacy.
The Texas Rangers drafted him in 1985, but he chose instead to attend Louisiana State University on a baseball scholarship. He was the starting center-fielder on the first LSU team to go to the College World Series in 1986, and again in 1987.
While filming Charlie's Angels (2000), Michael was kicked in the jaw with a stiletto boot. He found himself in an emergency room, insisting that he was not the victim of domestic violence. The spousal abuse representatives had a hard time believing that he had been kicked by lead Cameron Diaz.
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Yvonne Yung Hung
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Yvonne Yung is a famous female artist from Hong Kong. She was born in Hong Kong and came to Beijing alone at the age of 13. Her childhood dream was to become a dancer and graduated from the Dance Department of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. But later, because of excessive strain on the psoas, she has to give up dancing and switch into the entertainment circle. In 1989, she was elected to Miss Asia and won the championship. Immediately after her debut, she was promoted by Asian TV and took a lot of TV dramas, such as "Looking at the Present", "The Best Talent"
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Nicolas Buchoux
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Nicolas Buchoux est un acteur français.
Après un DEUG d’Allemand, il suit la formation de l'Ecole des Enfants Terribles avant d’entrer, en 2001, à l'Ecole du Studio d’Asnières dirigée par Jean-Louis Martin-Barbaz. Il effectue aussi plusieurs stages, auprès de Jean-Claude Penchenat, Gildas Milin, David Lescot, Jacques Vincey ainsi qu’à l’Actor’s centre à Londres (programme européen intensif de 2 mois entre Londres, Paris et Berlin). Au théâtre, il est dirigé entre autres, par Laurent Sauvage (Les Merveilles de C.Galéa), Frédéric Fachena (Le Cercle de Craie Caucasien de B.Brecht), Joachim Serreau (L’homme de paille de Feydeau, co-mis en scène par Nicolas Buchoux, Vengeance et Cie d’après Jacques Rebotier et Fragments d’une lettre d’Adieu… de N.Chaurette), Alexandre Zeff (Célébration de H.Pinter, récompensé par le prix mise en scène 2008 du Théâtre 13), Harry Burton (Party Time de H.Pinter; John Gielgud Theatre de Londres), et aussi Marina Glorian, Maxime Leroux, Valérie Castel-Jordy, Anouch Paré, Nathalie Krebs et Benjamin Kauffmann. Au cinéma, il tourne sous la direction de Noémie Lvovsky, Emmanuelle Bercot, Franck Phélizon, Patrice Leconte, Thomas N’Gijol et dernièrement Philippe de Chauveron dans « Qu’est ce qu’on a fait au bon dieu ? » A la télévision, il tourne avec Raphaël Frydman, Raoul Peck, Philippe Triboit, Gilles Bannier, Jean-Marc Brondolo, Nicolas Cuche, Julia Cordonnier, Franck Apprédéris, Robert Kechichian, Laurent Heynemann, Gérard Jourd’hui et dernièrement, Olivier De Plas dans la 2ème saison de la série télé Q.I. , où il tient un rôle récurrent.
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Lucy Boynton
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Lucy Boynton (born January 17, 1994) is a British-American actress. Her first professional role was as the young Beatrix Potter in Miss Potter (2006), for which she was nominated for the Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film – Supporting Young Actress. She went on to play Posy Fossil in 2007 in the BBC film Ballet Shoes. She also played the role of Margaret Dashwood in the BBC serial Sense and Sensibility (2008). She portrayed the mysterious model Raphina in the 2016 film Sing Street, a ghost Polly Parsons in the 2016 film I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House and Countess Helena Andrenyi in the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express.
She played Freddie Mercury's partner, Mary Austin, in the biopic Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), for which earned the cast a nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 25th Screen Actors Guild Awards. She portrayed Astrid Sloan in the Netflix series The Politician (2019–2020).
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Dwight Schultz
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William Dwight Schultz (born November 24, 1947) is an American stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for his roles as Captain "Howling Mad" Murdock on the 1980s action show The A-Team, and as Reginald Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and the film Star Trek: First Contact. He is also well known in Animation as the Mad Scientist Dr. Animo in the Ben 10 series, and Chef Mung Daal in the children's cartoon Chowder.
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Frances Negrón Muntaner
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Frances Negrón-Muntaner (born 1966 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is an award-winning Puerto Rican filmmaker, writer, and scholar. Her work is focused on a comparative exploration of coloniality, primarily in Puerto Rico and the United States, with special attention given to the intersections between race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and politics. She is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University in New York City.
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Niña Pastori
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María Rosa García was born in 1978 in the town of San Fernando in Cadiz. The youngest of five siblings and only daughter of a military man (José García) and flamenco singer "La Pastori" García.
Her stage name is "Niña Pastori" because among her siblings of four older brothers, she was the only woman and she was referred to as "la niña", she was also "la única hija de la Pastori" (the only daughter of la Pastori) and when she went on stage people remarked “va a cantar la niña de la Pastori” (la Pastori's girl is going to sing). Her initial name was "La niña de la Pastori", but she later changed it to "Niña Pastori".
She started her artistic career at a young age singing in Andalusia. At the age of six she accompanied her mother in the flamenco tablaos of "Barrio de la Pastora", and a year later won a singing contest at the "El Chato" club in San Fernando, where she sang bulerías (a flamenco style) and won first prize. In doing so, she showed that she had skills despite her early age.
Among her first mentors was Camarón de la Isla, also from San Fernando (Cádiz), whose purist flamenco style she followed in her early years. Later she added a more commercial, pop tone to her image and style without losing her flamenco roots. Artists Paco Ortega and Alejandro Sanz helped her produce her first album, Entre dos puertos, when she was seventeen and with whom sold more than 150,000 units, achieving commercial popularity. Part of this was due to the single Tú me camelas, which was a hit in Spain in summer 1996. Since then, she has recorded ten albums and has sold two million records.
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