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Daniel Freire

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Daniel Freire  (born 29 December 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film actor. He entered film in 1993 in Un Muro de silencio and has appeared in over 15 films including Las Aventuras de Dios 2000 in which he portrayed Jesus Christ and Arizona Sur in 2004. However in 2005 he appeared in 27 episodes of the Argentine TV series Motivos personales. He has lived in Spain since 1999. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Freire, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Évelyne Grandjean

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Évelyne Grandjean (born 7 April 1939 in Versailles) is a French stage, cinematic and television actress, playwright and television writer, and radio host. She has been also a prolific voice actress for many French-dubbed versions of foreign films and TV series, including 101 Dalmatians: The Series (as Spot, Princess and Nanny), Alfred J. Kwak (as Kwak), The Animals of Farthing Wood (as Adder the Snake), Around the World in Eighty Dreams (as Grandma Tadpole), Babar (as Celeste), A Bug's Life (as Dr. Flora), The Cat Returns (as Natoru), Chicken Run (as Bunty), Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (as Fairy Godmother), Cutey Honey (as Sister Jill), Dr. Slump (as Arale Norimaki), Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (as Elvira), The Flintstones (as Wilma Flintstone), Grey's Anatomy (as Ellis Grey), Ice Age: Continental Drift (as Granny), James and the Giant Peach (as Sponge and Ladybug), The Jetsons (as Jane and Rosie), Maple Town (as Patty Rabbit), Monsters, Inc. (as Ms. Flint), Muppet Treasure Island (as Mrs. Bluberidge), Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders (as Lady Kale), and Princess Knight (as Heckett the witch). Source: Article "Évelyne Grandjean" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sreela Majumdar

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Sreela Majumdar (died 1/27/2024) was an Indian film actress who was predominantly associated with Bengali cinema. She made her industry debut with the 1978 movie Parashuram, under the direction of Mrinal Sen, and then went on to be a part of several movies like Ek Din Pratidin, Akaler Sandhane, Chokh, and Arohan. She was seen as a woman from a brothel in director Shyam Benegal's 1983 film Mandi, starring Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil in the lead roles. She then featured as one of leads opposite Om Puri and Anil Chatterjee in the role of a widow in the film Chokh. She was also part of movies like Ek Pal (1986) and Prasab (1994). Her 2017 venture includes the drama Baranda, which depicts the complexity of human relationships through the lives of two people. The movie stars her as one of the leads opposite Manali Dey, under the direction of Reshmi Mitra. Her 2023 releases include Palan, directed by Kaushik Ganguly.
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Michaela Conlin

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michaela Conlin (born June 9, 1978, height 5' 8" (1,73 m)) is an American stage and television actress, best known for her work on the Fox TV series, Bones as Angela Montenegro. Conlin was born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania. She was born to a Chinese-American mother and an Irish-American father. She performed in her first play at the age of six and continued to appear on stage in numerous Pennsylvania community and regional productions. Following her graduation from Parkland High School, Conlin moved to New York City to study acting and was accepted into New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. While working toward her B.F.A. in Theater, she appeared in several productions at the Atlantic Theater Company and the Playwrights Horizons Theater School, and traveled to Amsterdam to study with the Experimental Theatre Wing's International Training Program. Following her graduation from NYU, Conlin was chosen to be a part of the cable documentary series The It Factor, which focused on the lives of young actors in New York City. Soon after, she relocated to Los Angeles, California, where she landed her first starring role in the series MDs, playing an idealistic young intern taken under the wing of the hospital's two renegade doctors, played by William Fichtner and John Hannah. She followed that with a leading role in the drama series The D.A., playing an outspoken political consultant to Steven Weber's district attorney.
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Paul Maxey

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Maxey (1907–1963) was an American actor. Born in Wheaton, Illinois, the rotund Maxey played character roles in films from 1937, notably as the composer Victor Herbert in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946), and was in many TV shows from the 1950s onwards, notably in the role of Mayor John Peoples in the sitcom The People's Choice (1955–1958) and such other shows as M Squad, Wagon Train, Dennis the Menace, The Untouchables, Perry Mason and Lassie before his death in 1963 at age 56.
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Mel B

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Melanie Janine Brown MBE (born 29 May 1975), commonly known as Melanie B or Mel B, is an English singer, songwriter, and television personality. She rose to fame in the 1990s as a member of the girl group Spice Girls, in which she was nicknamed Scary Spice. With over 100 million records sold worldwide, the group became the best-selling female group of all time. Since 2007, she has established herself as a television personality and talent show judge. She participated in the fifth season of the American dance competition series Dancing with the Stars (2007). Between 2011 and 2016, she served as a guest and main judge on the Australian and British versions of The X Factor. She also co-presented the Australian version of Dancing with the Stars for one season (2012). She judged on the NBC reality show America's Got Talent (2013–2018), served as a coach and mentor on The Voice Kids Australia (2014) and judged on The Masked Singer Australia (2022). From 2016 to 2018, she co-presented Lip Sync Battle UK alongside rapper Professor Green.
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Wim Wenders

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Ernst Wilhelm "Wim" Wenders (German: [ˈvɪm ˈvɛndɐs]; born 14 August 1945; Düsseldorf) is a German filmmaker, producer, playwright, author, and photographer. He is a major figure in New German Cinema. Among many honors, he has received three nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature: for Buena Vista Social Club (1999), about Cuban music culture; Pina (2011), about the contemporary dance choreographer Pina Bausch; and The Salt of the Earth (2014), about Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. One of Wenders's earliest honors was a win for the BAFTA Award for Best Direction for his narrative drama Paris, Texas (1984), which also won the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Many of his subsequent films have also been recognized at Cannes, including Wings of Desire (1987), for which he won the Best Director Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. Wenders has been the president of the European Film Academy in Berlin since 1996. Alongside filmmaking, he is an active photographer, emphasizing images of desolate landscapes. He is considered an auteur director. Wenders has received many awards, including the Golden Lion for The State of Things at the Venice Film Festival (1982); the Palme d'Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival for his movie Paris, Texas; and Best Direction for Wings of Desire in the 1987 Bavarian Film Awards and the 1987 Cannes Film Festival. He won the Bavarian Film Awards for Best Director for Faraway, So Close! in 1993. In 2004, he received the Master of Cinema Award of the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg. He was awarded the Leopard of Honour at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2005. In 2012, his dance film Pina was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature of the 84th Academy Awards. Wenders also received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Screenplay for the film. Wenders was awarded the Honorary Golden Bear at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015.
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Marius Goring

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The son of Dr Charles Buckman Goring, a renowned physician and criminologist, and Kate Winifred (née MacDonald), a former suffragette and talented pianist. Marius Goring was educated at The Perse School, Cambridge, England and at universities in Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna and Paris (The Sorbonne) where he perfected his French and German - he became fluent in both languages. He studied for the stage under Harcourt Williams at the Old Vic dramatic school, London. His first stage appearance was a fairy at the ADC Theatre, Cambridge in 1925 at the age of twelve in "Crossings: A Fairy Play" the only play written by Walter De La Mare. His first London appearance was at the Rudolph Steiner Hall in December 1927 as Harlequin in one of Jean Sterling McKinlay’s Children’s Matinees. He performed regularly at the Old Vic and Sadler's Wells in the 1930s and later toured France and Germany. He played Macbeth, Romeo, Trip in School for Scandal and the Chorus in Henry V with Laurence Olivier amongst others. His first West End appearance was at the Shaftesbury Theatre in May 1934 in The Voysey Inheritance. He joined the army in July 1940 but was seconded the following year to the BBC where he became supervisor of productions for its German Service. He made regular propaganda broadcasts to Germany. Most of his radio propaganda work was done under the alias Charles Richardson (using his father’s first name and his grandmother’s maiden name) as the name Goring wasn't too popular during the war (Hermann Göring was the commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe). In 1941 he was married for the second time to the renowned German Jewish actress Lucie Mannheim who had to flee Germany in 1934 after the Nazis came to power. They worked together on stage and in films and television many times over the following years. He was a founder member of British Equity in 1929, being on its council for decades from 1949 and was elected its vice president three times. He had a contentious relationship with the union from the 1970s, taking them to court on a number of issues, the last of which he lost in the High Court and was nearly bankrupted by the court costs. Marius was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1979 and appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1991. He died from stomach cancer in 1998 aged 86 at his home in Rushlake Green, East Sussex, survived by his third wife, Prudence FitzGerald, a television producer/director who had directed him in 18 episodes of The Expert and his only child, a daughter from his first marriage, Phyllida.
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Marika Kouno

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Marika Kouno (高野 麻里佳, Kōno Marika, born February 22, 1994) is a Japanese voice actress (seiyū) and singer from Tokyo. She was previously affiliated with Mausu Promotion, but since October 2019 is affiliated with Aoni Production. She debuted as a voice actress in 2013 and played her first main role in the 2015 TV anime series Seiyu's Life!, where she voiced Rin Kohana. She is also a member of the voice actor music unit Earphones along with other main cast members of Seiyu's Life!. As member of Earphones she is signed to label Evil Line Records, while as a solo artist she is signed to Nippon Columbia. His most representative works include Seiyu's Life! (Suzuka Kobana), Scorching Ping Pong Girls (Hanabi Tenka), Akiba's Trip The Animation (Niwaka Denkigai), Hinako Note (Yua Nakajima), Mitsuboshi Colors (Sacchan), and Umamusume: Pretty Derby ( Silence Suzuka), among others.
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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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