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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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Christopher Stollery

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Christopher Stollery (or Chris Stollery) (born 12 August 1965) is an Australian television actor. He graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art(NIDA) in 1987. He has had guest roles on many TV series and miniseries and is most well known for his role on Sea Patrol as Federal Agent Greg Murphy, a role he has held since the series premiere in 2007. He is also well known for his role on State Coroner as Sgt. Dermot McLeod. He has had recurring roles on The Flying Doctors and A Country Practice. He has also had roles on All Saints, White Collar Blue andWater Rats. He played the role of Lieutenant Nick Homer in the film A Divided Heart (2005).
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Koyuki

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Koyuki Katō (born December 18, 1976), better known as Koyuki, is a Japanese model and actress. Koyuki was born in Zama, Kanagawa-ken. She started her modeling career in 1995 and has since starred in various Japanese dramas, TV and magazine ad campaigns and films. She frequently appears in Japanese print and television campaigns for the electronics company Panasonic. She rose to fame in the drama Kimi wa petto (2003) with Jun Matsumoto and gained huge popularity. Her first international film was The Last Samurai (2003) where she played Taka, wife of a Samurai slain by the character Nathan Algren, portrayed by Tom Cruise, Koyuki was well-known in Japan for years before that. She first caught the attention of the public in 1997 by winning an exclusive modelling contract with the magazine Non-no, but quickly grew beyond modelling and has earned acclaim as an actress through her many roles on Japanese television and in several Japanese films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Koyuki, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​
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Rekha Sharma

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Rekha Shanti Sharma is a Canadian actress best known for her portrayal of Tory Foster on Battlestar Galactica. Her ancestors are from the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, which they left during the British period. Her family resettled in the Fiji Islands and her parents moved to Canada. She has an older brother, Sunil, who is nine years her senior. Their father is a Hindu priest. Sharma started to pursue acting as a career in her 20s. She has stage experience but also appeared in television series like Da Vinci's City Hall, House M.D., The Lone Gunmen, Smallville, Supernatural, John Doe, Dark Angel, The Twilight Zone, Sanctuary, Hellcats, The Listener, and the 2009 re-imagined television series of V. She also appeared in the movies The Core, Tasmanian Devils, and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem. For fun, she paints and plays the sarangi, a stringed musical instrument.
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Verdi Solaiman

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After spending 10 years of both college and work, majoring in Advertising Design in Columbus, Ohio, Verdi Solaiman fell in love with acting when he came back to Indonesia in 2004 -- as he stumbled upon the acting school Sakti Aktor Studio. There, he was involved in a lot of Off-Broadway theatre work, with the production of "Mass Appeal" by Bill C. Davis as his thesis play -- a two-hour play and acted in English, he acted alongside Arifin Putra. Verdi started his movie career after starring in his debut film Jakarta Undercover (2007). Aside from acting, Verdi has worked as a creative director for feature film promos since 2006. (Taken from Wikipedia)
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Eckhart Tolle

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Eckhart Tolle wurde in Deutschland geboren und verbrachte hier die ersten dreizehn Jahre seines Lebens. Nach dem Abschluss seines Studiums an der University of London war er in Forschung und Supervision an der Cambridge University tätig. Mit neunundzwanzig Jahren löschte eine tiefe spirituelle Transformation seine alte Identität praktisch aus und führte zu einer grundlegenden Wandlung seines Lebens. Die nächsten Jahre widmete er dem Verstehen, Integrieren und Vertiefen dieser Verwandlung, die den Beginn einer intensiven Reise nach Innen markierte.  Bekannt wurde er vor zehn Jahren durch das Erscheinen seines Bestsellers „Jetzt – die Kraft der Gegenwart“. Dieses Buch erreichte weltweit eine Millionenauflage und wurde in 35 Sprachen übersetzt. Auch das Folgewerk „Eine neue Erde“ wurde zum Weltbestseller. Nach mehreren Auftritten in der Show von Amerikas berühmtester Talkmasterin, Oprah Winfrey, ist Eckhart Tolle heute ein weltweit gefragten Vortragsredner.  Eckhart Tolle gehört keiner speziellen Religion oder Tradition an. Die einfache aber tiefgreifende Botschaft seiner Lehre vermittelt er mit der zeitlosen und schlichten Klarheit aller wahren spirituellen Meister: es gibt einen Weg heraus aus dem Leiden, der direkt in den Frieden führt. Seit Erscheinen seines ersten englischen Buches 1997 ist Eckhart Tolles Bekanntheitsgrad als spiritueller Lehrer weltweit konstant gewachsen. Inzwischen sind seine Bücher in 35 Sprachen übersetzt und besitzen überall Bestsellerstatus. Seit 1996 lebt Eckhart in Vancouver, Kanada.
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Miki Odagiri

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Miki Odagiri (小田切美喜) was known primarily for her important and timeless role as the upbeat office girl in Akira Kurosawa's classic Ikiru opposite Takashi Shimura, whose character is dying of cancer, and Miki, as Toyo Odagiri, inspires him to live... just by being herself: bubbly, spontaneous, and optimistic. Her character is also filled with blunt sarcasm that was extremely rare in movies of the early-1950's. Perhaps Miki and Takashi's most memorable scene is when she's telling him the nicknames she created for their fellow workmates... including his! Sadly, beyond Ikiru, finding the handful of other Japanese movies she appeared in, especially on DVD or Blu Ray, is extremely difficult. But she left an impression in what's considered not only one of the legendary Kurosawa's greatest achievements, but one of the best movies ever made, worldwide.
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Deborah Tucker

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Deborah Lynn Tucker was born in Evanston, IL and grew up in the Chicago area. She competed nationally and internationally as a figure skater and was the 1985 World University Games Ladies' Bronze Medalist, before graduating from Boston University with a bachelor degree in Broadcasting and Film. Deciding to transfer her love of performing from ice to stage and screen, she studied at the Actor's Institute in London and Oxford School of Drama, followed by a performance at the Edinburgh Festival. Six months after arriving in Hollywood she landed a series regular role on sitcom "Living Dolls" followed by a recurring role on "Dallas", enjoying back-to-back employment between comedy and drama genres. After a few more years of working in Teen and early 20's roles, it was time to grow up off screen. She married Ron Markezich in 1996 and they relocated to Seattle to begin a family. They have four children born in less than 3 1/2 years, including twins. As the children were in school, the "acting bug" bit again and Deborah returned to work in a leading role on a corporate film series (2008-2013) as well as some short films in the area. She continues to work on films, traveling between the Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles, Vancouver B.C., Texas, and hopefully soon to the Southeastern U.S. market as her oldest heads to college across the country and she'd like to combine work with Mom visits! Mini Biography By: Deborah Tucker (Humbly submitted by Rae Sunshine Lee)
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Joey Cramer

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Joey Cramer was born on August 23, 1973 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada as Deleriyes August Joe Fisher Cramer. His debut was in the Sci-Fi movie Runaway (1984), directed by Jurassic Park (1993)'s writer, Michael Crichton. 1986 was his most successful year after having a brief role as young Broud, in The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986), as the son of Scott Bakula in the Disney TV movie Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: I-Man (1986), and being the main star in another Sci-Fi movie, Flight of the Navigator (1986), directed by Randal Kleiser (Grease (1978)'s director), at the same time that he appeared in a double episode from the TV series Murder, She Wrote (1984). In 1987, after appearing in Stone Fox (1987), he ceased acting in order to continue his studies. Eventually he back to cinema in 1996, in a brief and uncredited role in It's My Party (1996).
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Joakim Nätterqvist

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dag Joakim Tedson Nätterqvist (born 24 October 1974) is a Swedish actor. Nätterqvist was born in Gamla Uppsala. He graduated from the Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm in 2001. In the 2007 Swedish movie Arn – The Knight Templar Nätterqvist plays the role of Arn Magnusson, one of the film's main characters. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joakim Nätterqvist, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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