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Charlie Sheen
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Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor. He has appeared in films such as Platoon (1986), Wall Street (1987), Young Guns (1988), The Rookie (1990), The Three Musketeers (1993), and The Arrival (1996). In the 2000s, when Sheen replaced Michael J. Fox as the star of ABC's Spin City, his portrayal of Charlie Crawford earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He then starred as Charlie Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003–11), for which he received multiple Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations, and as Dr. Charles "Charlie" Goodson on the FX series Anger Management (2012–14). In 2010, Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television, earning US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men.
Sheen's personal life has made headlines, including reports of alcohol and drug abuse and marital problems, as well as allegations of domestic violence. In March 2011, his contract for Two and a Half Men was terminated by CBS and Warner Bros. following his derogatory comments about the series' creator, Chuck Lorre. On November 17, 2015, Sheen publicly revealed that he is HIV positive, having been diagnosed four years previously. The disclosure resulted in a vast increase of online search queries for HIV prevention and testing, which was later dubbed the "Charlie Sheen effect"
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Virginia Bruce
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Virginia Bruce (September 29, 1910 – February 24, 1982) was an American actress and singer.
Born Helen Virginia Briggs in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In 1928, she moved with her family to Los Angeles intending to enroll in the University of California, Los Angeles when a friendly wager sent her seeking film work. She got it as an extra in Why Bring That Up?. In 1930 she appeared on Broadway in the musical Smiles, followed by America's Sweetheart in 1931.
She returned to Hollywood in 1932, where on August 10, 1932, she married John Gilbert, her co-star in the film Downstairs. She retired briefly after the birth of their daughter Susan Ann Gilbert. The couple divorced in 1934, and Virginia returned to a hectic schedule of film appearances. Gilbert died two years later in 1936.
Bruce introduced the Cole Porter standard "I've Got You Under My Skin" in the film Born to Dance and co-starred in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical The Great Ziegfeld. One of her final film appearances was in Strangers When We Meet.
In 1949, Bruce starred in a daily 30-minute radio drama. Make Believe Town was an afternoon program on CBS.
Bruce married her second husband, film director J. Walter Ruben, in 1937, making the Wallace Beery western The Bad Man of Brimstone with him that year. Together they had a son named Christopher (b. 1941), before Ruben's death in 1942. In 1946, Bruce married Ali Ipar. They divorced in 1951 in order for him to receive a commission in the Turkish Military (which forbade promotions of men married to foreigners), but remarried in 1952 before divorcing again in 1964.
Bruce died of cancer on February 24, 1982, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She was 71.
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Lisa London
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Lisa London is an accomplished actress & singer who hails from Palm Springs CA USA. Lisa has basked in the limelight since a teen. In high school she was a Bob Hope Classic Girl and had her own weekly column in the Desert Sun newspaper and interviewed local and international entertainment & sports celebrities for CBS radio. Lisa has starred in many films & TV roles and produced critically acclaimed theater productions she also acted in. Lisa London is Best Actress Nominee Short Film (Finding Momma) New York City International Film Festival 2016
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Georges de Caunes
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Louis Georges Gustave de Caunes (26 April 1919 – 28 June 2004), professionally known as Georges de Caunes, was a well-known French television and radio presenter, journalist, writer and producer whose career spanned over six decades in French language television and radio.
De Caunes joined broadcasting in 1945, shortly after the Second World War, there he translated Voice of America into French for the National broadcaster Radiodiffusion française. When television was launched in 1949, De Caunes became one of the first newsreaders on National TV, for which he co-anchored with Pierre Tchernia and Claude Dargat. He later went freelance and in 1953 was offered a full-time presenting job on TMC, following a success on Monacan television, De Caunes was later offered a radio presenting job on the newly formed station Europe 1. Between 1964 and 1966 he was head anchor for the evening news on O.R.T.F and by 1967 he had moved to Radio Luxembourg to front the morning show.
He made guest appearances in other television productions including a few episodes of Le Voyageur des siècles. He was also the French commentator at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1971, 1975 and 1977. He was also had a passion for theatre and in 1979 wrote a play entitled Comédie pour un meurtre. He was also a keen sports presenter fronting several football matches across the world for French television.
De Caunes was married three times. His first wife was the writer Benoîte Groult, they had two daughters Blandine (born 1946) and Lison (born 1950). He left Groult for television presenter Jacqueline Joubert from whom they had a son Antoine (who is now one of France's best known entertainers and the host of Eurotrash). In 1960 De Caunes divorced Joubert and in 1967 he married reporter Anne-Marie Carmentrez they had two children together Marie and Pierre (who is now a presenter).
De Caunes became a grandfather in 1977, when his son Antoine's wife gave birth to a girl: Emma de Caunes who is now a well-known actress in France.
He was awarded both National Order of Merit and the Legion of Honour by President François Mitterrand.
Following a long time of illness, De Caunes died on 28 June 2004. Since his death, tributes rendered him, streets and avenues named after him. Writers of adventure books receive the "literary Prix Georges de Caunes" as the book festival in La Rochelle. Since 2005, the Festival Georges de Caunes, Human Adventure Sports and takes place in Vallauris (formerly Fidlas, International Film Festival and the Book of Sports Adventure).
Source: Article "Georges de Caunes" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Rushdy Abaza
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An Egyptian actor, born in 1926 to an Italian mother and an Egyptian father. He obtained his baccalaureate from St. Mark's College in Alexandria, but did not complete his university studies due to his love of sports. He began his career in cinema when director Barakat assigned him an important role in the film The Little Millionairess in 1948. In 1950, he traveled to Italy for six months hoping to appear in Italian films, but he was not successful there. Among his most important films are: (A Woman on the Road), The Road, The Road of Hope, The Second Man, Struggle on the Nile, There Is a Man in Our House, and Wife No. 13). He died in 1980 after suffering from brain cancer.
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China Zorrilla
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China Zorrilla (born Concepción Matilde Zorrilla de San Martín Muñoz; Montevideo, 14 March 1922 –Montevideo, 17 September 2014) was an emblematic Uruguayan theater, film, and television actress, also director, producer and writer. An immensely popular star in the Rioplatense area is often regarded as a Grand Dame of the South American theater stage. After a long career in the Uruguayan theater, Zorrilla made over 50 appearances in Argentina's film, theater and TV. Her distinguished career took off in Uruguay in the 50-60s, later she settled in Argentina where she lived for over 35 years and was popular on TV, theater, and cinema. At 90, she retired and went back to Uruguay where she died in 2014. In 2008, Zorrilla was invested Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government and in 2011, the Correo Uruguayo (the national postal service in Uruguay) released a print run of 500 commemorative postage stamps dedicated to her.
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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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Sabrina Gennarino
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Sabrina Gennarino was born in Rochester, New York. She moved to New York City to continue modeling and attend college. She discovered her passion for acting when a friend asked her to be in a play, where she played two different roles after only two nights of rehearsal. She began to study with the incomparable Eric Loeb, who is still her coach today. He helped her find her voice and confidence.
She booked her first full feature and then several independent shorts. Including her unbelievable role in H.R. Pukenshette, where she portrays the ex-girlfriend from hell. She has gone on to star in "Bum Runner" with Joe Reitman, "Virgin Larry" by The Leupp Brothers, and the full feature "Fortunes" starring Mike McGlone and James Urbaniak. She had yet another breaking in performance with her role in the indie feature, "The Fall Before Paradise," directed by Steven Gillilan. She starred in Jake Kennedy's "Days of Darkness". She will soon be seen in Brett Simmons, "The Monkey's Paw" and Daniel Stamm's, "Angry Little God".
She made her writing and producing debut on "The Hypocritic Oath" and followed that up with "AFTER". She also starred in both films.
Sabrina has also flexed her muscle with some of the heaviest hitters on the small screen. Starring opposite Joe Pantoliano as Nina on "The Soprano's", "The Guiding Light", "Strong Medicine" and "Criminal Minds".
Sabrina spends most of her free time working with dog rescues and other charities. She resides in Los Angeles and New Orleans with her producing partner and husband, Pieter Gaspersz and their daughter.
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Liza Scholtz
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Liza Scholtz is a film and television actress and writer born in Cape Town, South Africa. Liza studied acting for screen at The South African School of Motion Picture Medium & Live Performance (AFDA) in Cape Town. Where she completed her honors cum laude. Liza made her debut leading film role as Tatianna in the award winning feature film High Fantasy, which she also co-wrote. High Fantasy won the best feature film award at The Durban international film festival and had its world premier at The Toronto Film Festival. In 2021 Liza was invited by celebrated theatre director Brett Bailey to showcase her one woman poetry performance piece, at the acclaimed Constallations show. Liza can also be seen in Sapio Expo as Cass, Trackers as Ms Shah, Anna in the psychological thriller The Good Madam, Melinda Vargas in American Monsters, Bernice Myers in Origins, (The journey of Humankind), Lisa in the Sci-Fi South African comedy Die Vlieende Springbokkie, and the Nurse in The Maze Runner.
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Hannah Quinlivan
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Hannah Quinlivan (or Jen Wu, or Kun Ling) is a Taiwanese Australian actress and model. Hannah Quinlivan was born to Taiwanese-Korean mother Violet Wu and Australian-Dutch-Danish father Patrick Quinlivan in Wanhua District, Taipei, Taiwan, on 12 August 1993. She began her career by appearing in Blackie's Teenage Club in 2008. Quinlivan's first film role was an uncredited appearance in the film Step Back to Glory (2013). In December 2014 singer and actor Jay Chou announced that he would marry Quinlivan on his 36th birthday.[6] Quinlivan holds dual Taiwanese and Australian citizenship.
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