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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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Elina Psykou
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Elina Psykou is a director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in Athens in 1977. He studied film directing at the Lykourgos Stavrakos School and Sociology at Panteion University.
Her first feature film, "The eternal return of Antonis Paraskevas", was awarded in the Works in Progress section of Karlovy Vary IFF 2012 and had its world premiere at the 2013 Berlin Film Festival. In the same year Variety magazine highlighted her as one of the "10 European Directors to Watch" while in 2014 she received the debut director award[6] of the Hellenic Film Academy.
Her second feature film, The Son of Sophia, participated as a script in the Berlinale Residency 2013 and had its world premiere in the international competition section of the 2017 Tribeca festival, where it won the award for best fiction film. In 2018, The Son of Sophia won 5 awards from the Hellenic Film Academy, including those for best film, direction and screenplay.
She is currently preparing her first documentary, Stray Bodies, her third feature fiction film, Hereditary Fears and Other Cases (participating in the Berlinale co-production market 2019) and is completing the production of the scripted feature film Flock of Sheep and directed by Dimitris Kanellopoulos.
In 2009, she founded her own production company, Jungle Films, and in 2016, together with directors Alexis Alexiou, Yiannis Vesleme and cinema historian Aphrodite Nikolaidou, they created the group The Lost Avenue of Greek Cinema, with the aim of promoting variety and the charm of Greek Cinema.
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Evan Call
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Evan Call was born in Lincoln, California. Although his brother and sister both played violin when they were children, he did not develop real interest music until he was thirteen. Growing up in a country town, he began taking bluegrass guitar lessons from a local teacher, John Massey. This was a big turning point in his life as it was the gateway to a new world.
As he started his studies in guitar, he developed a condition known as "Occipital Neuralgia" which caused incessant, extreme headaches. He could not attend school due to the pain, so he continued his studies at home and sent his work to school. As a wrestler, runner, and soccer player, this also was a big imposition not only on his academic endeavors, but also on his athletic lifestyle. During this time, as he could not do much else, he focused intensely on music. For the next three months, he spent the majority of his time playing guitar until he was able to return to school after the pain had subsided enough. However, it was not until four years later that he completely recovered.
When he was sixteen, he picked up electric guitar and learned a great deal from a good friend of his, Matt Di Giordano. At this point, he branched out from just fingerstyle guitar to metal, a genre that has had a great influence on his development as a musician. Inspired by his friend, he began to write his own music. Starting with fingerstyle tunes and metal, he eventually delved into other kinds of music, specifically orchestral music (often used in his metal tunes) and video game music.
At the same time he began playing electric guitar, he developed an interest in singing. After singing for a couple years on his own, he began taking classical lessons from a local vocal teacher, Chris Bello, and participated in a local theater production. He began to develop his technique as a classical/musical theater singer and has continued to develop over these past few years. As a voice principal at Berklee, he is branching out into other styles such as: rock, jazz, latin, etc...
His deep interest in other cultures has also had a huge influence on his music. Aside from his native language of English, he also speaks proficient Japanese and Spanish. Although not an expert, he plays other instruments such as: Sanshin, Ryuuteki, Hichiriki, Quena, Flauta Dulce, Ocarina, Balalaika, and Charango. As a film scoring major at Berklee, he continues to apply everything he has learned throughout his life to further his ability and competency in the music world.
He currently resides in Tokyo and belonged to the music production group Elements Garden until 2016.
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José Luis Cruz
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Born in Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico, stage director, actor, playwright, cultural promoter, has directed more than 70 productions in Mexico and the world, the last staging was Moctezuma II in the Zocalo of Mexico City with more than 40 thousand spectators, has held several public offices, has created several festivals of music, dance and theater, the best known is the Ollin Kan Festival, cultures in resistance, in his activity as a cultural promoter has traveled countless arts markets and festivals around the world.
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Jane Winton
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Jane Winton (October 10, 1905 - September 22, 1959) was a movie actress, dancer, opera soprano, writer, and painter. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
During the 1920s she began her stage career as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies.
After coming to the west coast Winton became known as the green-eyed goddess of Hollywood. Her film appearances include roles in Tomorrow's Love (1925), Why Girls Go Back Home (1926), Sunrise, The Crystal Cup and The Fair Coed (1927), Burning Daylight, Melody of Love and The Patsy (1928), Scandal and Show Girl in Hollywood (1929), and The Furies and Hell's Angels (1930).
Winton played Donna Isobel, the mother of the title character, in Don Juan (1926). The film starred John Barrymore and Mary Astor. The movie was billed as the first film made in Vitaphone, a new invention which synchronized sound with motion pictures. Modern talking pictures began with the Vitaphone.
After leaving Hollywood, Winton performed various operatic roles both in the United States and abroad. In 1933 she was with the National Grand Opera Company for their production of I Pagliacci. She sang Nedda. She starred in the operetta Caviar. In England she became noted for her singing and work in radio.
Jane Winton died in 1959 at the Pierre Hotel in New York City.
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Lucero
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Lucero Hogaza León (born August 29, 1969 in Mexico City, Mexico) known as Lucero, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, actress and television host. She is a multi-platinum singer in Mexico, and has sung in Spanish, English and Portuguese. She is the daughter of Lucero León and Antonio Hogaza and has one brother, Antonio. Lucero has sold more than 22 million records worldwide and is recognized in Latin America and Mexico as "La Novia De America". Lucero gained her first regular high-profile job in a popular children's show in Mexico City called "Alegrias de Mediodia” in 1982 at the age of 13. Since then she has released a series of successful albums. Many of her songs peaked on top of most of the Latin charts including the Billboard Charts in the USA. She received her first leading role in the film Coqueta and went on to film a total of seven movies. Lucero participated in nine telenovelas in Mexico with the leading role. She was recognized by People en Español as the "Queen of the Telenovelas" celebrated on the 2013 issue of "Los 50 mas Bellos" posing with six of the most popular actors in telenovelas. Lucero has won more TVyNovelas Awards than any other actress. Lucero has been the hostess of the Latin Grammy Awards on eight different occasions. She is also the main hostess for more than fourteen years in a philanthropy show called Teletón Mexico and most recently Teleton USA where people make donations to help children with physical disabilities.
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Stevie Mackey
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Stevie Mackey is a singer and vocal coach from Los Angeles, California. Over the past decade, Stevie has dedicated his time to inspire musical creativity in the lives of many aspiring and established artists such as Selena Gomez, Jennifer Lopez, Fergie, Lenny Kravitz, and Kelly Rowland, to name a few. Stevie has worked with NBC’s The Voice for over 10 seasons. Stevie most recently traveled the world coaching Jennifer Lopez for her 2019 “It’s My Party Tour.”
Stevie is a graduate of Oakwood University and believes that his family and his unique Seventh-Day Adventist Christian background shaped him into the musician he is today.
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Azize Erim
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Azize Erim was born in London, raised in Turkey and lives in Los Angeles, California. After she moved to LA, Azize undertook classes at respected schools such as Playhouse West, Margie Haber and Flappers. She also completed the writing program at UCB and took several advanced writing classes. In less than a year after she moved to LA, Azize produced short movies, played in a number of commercials and acted in supporting roles for several feature films. From 2015 to 2017, she worked as an Assistant Teacher for kids classes at Margie Haber. In 2016, she co-founded the "Broken English" sketch comedy channel on YouTube. Some of the sketches went to several festivals and were featured on platforms like Funny or Die and WhoHaha. Azize started doing stand up in 2019 and performed in several comedy clubs in Los Angeles. During the quarantine, Azize finished her third pilot with her writing partner, Yasemin Isil. Azize is also a philanthropist. In 2016, she became a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster kids. She actively works with the foster kids to make their lives better. She also volunteers for animal shelters and does improv for kids at the hospitals. Azize is fluent in Turkish and English.
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Agata Mutsenietse
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Agata Edgarovna Muceniece (Priluchnaya) (Latvian: Agata Muceniece, Russian: Ага́та Эдга́ровна Му́цениеце, born 1 March 1989) is a Latvian actress, model, and television presenter.
Muceniece was born in Riga, Latvia in 1989. Her father was Latvian, her mother is Russian (both born in USSR). She has two older sisters Renata and Santa. Muceniece studied at the University of Latvia where she gained degree in Chinese philology. She then studied at the Russian State Film Institute in Moscow, Russia. She first gained fame in the television series "Closed School" (Russian: Закрытая Школа). She has also featured in projects such as "Secret City", "Kvest", "Three Musketeers".
Muceniece became a co-presenter of the Russian TV show, The Voice Kids in its fifth season.
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Diljit Dosanjh
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Diljit Dosanjh is an Indian actor, singer, television presenter and social media celebrity who works in Punjabi and Hindi cinema. He is recognised as one of the leading artists in the Punjabi music industry. He also acts in Punjabi movies, with many of them being noticeable hits, including the 2012 film Jatt & Juliet, the 2013 films Jatt & Juliet 2 and "Punjab 1984", the 2015 film Sardaar Ji, and the 2016 films Ambarsariya, Sardaar Ji 2 and the 2017 Punjabi Film Super Singh – which are counted among the most successful Punjabi movies in history. His first recorded mainstream performance was his solo track and music video Ishq Da Uda Ada from his 2004 album produced by Finetone Cassettes. He made his Bollywood debut with Udta Punjab in 2016 for which he earned the Filmfare Award for Best Male Debut. He mostly works with White Hill Productions.
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