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Fernando Poe Jr.

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Ronald Allan Kelley Poe (August 20, 1939 – December 14, 2004), better known as Fernando Poe, Jr. and colloquially known as FPJ and Da King, was a Filipino actor. During the latter part of his career, Poe was defeated by incumbent President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the 2004 Philippine Presidential elections, a result roundly believed to have been fraudulent. His long career as an action film star earned him the moniker "King of Philippine Movies" (often shortened to Da King). Poe was posthumously declared a National Artist of the Philippines for Film on 23 May 2006 by then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The award was confirmed by President Benigno Aquino III on 20 July 2012, and was presented to his family on 16 August. Ronald Allan K. Poe was the son of Filipino actor Allan Fernando R. Poe (Fernando Poe, Sr.) and Elizabeth Kelley, an American. He was born in San Carlos City, Pangasinan. His parents were not yet legally married when he was born on August 20, 1939, although his parents were later married in 1940. His opponents tried to derail his bid for the presidency when they sought to disqualify him as an illegitimate son of a non-Filipino mother. He was the second among six siblings and it was his brother Andy who was really named Fernando Poe, Jr. which FPJ later adopted, to bank on the popularity of his father who was a top actor in his time. Conrad Poe, a Filipino actor is FPJ's half-brother, the illegitimate son of the late Fernando Poe Sr. and actress Patricia Mijares. Pou is the original spelling of the family's surname from his grandfather, playwright Lorenzo Pou, a Catalan migrant from Majorca, Spain, who ventured into mining and business in the Philippines.
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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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Natasha Lytess

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Natasha Lytess (born 16 May 1911, Berlin, Germany – died 12 May 1963, Zurich, Switzerland) was an actress, writer and drama coach. Born Natalia Postmann and also known as Tala Forman, she had studied with the director Max Reinhardt and appeared in the repertory theater. When the Nazis came to power, and in light of her Jewish heritage, she moved to the United States and settled in Los Angeles. Among her acting credits were appearances in Comrade X (1940), Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942), and The House on Telegraph Hill (1951). In her career as a drama coach, her students included Mamie Van Doren, Virginia Leith, and Ann Savage (who reputedly got her stage name after a particularly "savage" argument with Lytess). Lytess is known best for her partnership with actress Marilyn Monroe from 1948 to 1956. During her time as a drama coach for Columbia Pictures, Lytess was shown Monroe's screen test and convinced the head of Columbia Pictures to hire Monroe for a six-month contract. Lytess coached Marilyn through more than 20 films before their partnership began to deteriorate. She died of cancer four days before her 52nd birthday in Zurich, Switzerland. She was portrayed by Lindsay Crouse in Norma Jeane & Marilyn, and by Embeth Davidtz in The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe. From Wikipedia.
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Christopher Jackson

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Christopher Neal Jackson (born September 30, 1975) is an American actor, singer, musician, and composer. He began his career in 1995 starring in the Off-Broadway musical Time and the Wind by composer Galt MacDermot when he was just 20 years old. He made his Broadway debut in 1997 as an ensemble member in the Original Broadway Cast of Disney's The Lion King. He remained with the show for several years, ultimately taking over the role of Simba. He went on to perform leading roles in several more Broadway musicals and plays, including After Midnight, Bronx Bombers, Holler If Ya Hear Me, and Memphis. He drew critical acclaim in several projects with Lin-Manuel Miranda: originating the roles of Benny in In the Heights and George Washington in the smash hit Hamilton. For the latter role he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. He also collaborated with Miranda on the Disney film Moana in which he provides the singing voice of Chief Tui. His other film work includes secondary roles in After.Life and Tracers.
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Madolyn Smith Osborne

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Madolyn Smith Osborne (born January 1, 1957, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American actress. Madolyn Smith Osborne may be best-known for her roles in the TV miniseries If Tomorrow Comes and the feature film Funny Farm, which co-starred Chevy Chase. In 1984, she appeared in 2010, with Roy Scheider. She portrayed Jehan Al Sadat, wife of Egyptian president Anwar Al Sadat, in the TV miniseries Sadat. She also starred in Urban Cowboy with John Travolta, The Super with Joe Pesci, and appeared in All of Me with Steve Martin. She guest starred in an episode of the sitcom Cheers titled "What's Up Doc?" (episode 164, season 7, first aired on Thursday March 30, 1989) where she plays beautiful psychiatrist Dr. Sheila Rydell, whom Sam "Mayday" Malone (Ted Danson) actually fakes having impotence for, so he can be treated by her in hopes of sparking a romantic relationship. Before her marriage to former NHL hockey player Mark Osborne she was known and credited as Madolyn Smith. Description above from the Wikipedia article Madolyn Smith Osborne, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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IZA

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Isabela Cristina Correia de Lima e Lima, better known by her stage name IZA, is a Brazilian singer, songwriter, presenter and publicist. In 2019 IZA debuted as a judge on The Voice Brasil and was announced as drum queen of Imperatriz Leopoldinense. Her first album, Dona de Mim, was released in 2018 and received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Pop Album in Portuguese Language. Born and raised in the neighborhood of Olaria, IZA is the daughter of music and arts teacher Isabel Cristina Lima and naval officer Djama Leite Lima. Her parents are second cousins, which is why the singer received the surname Lima twice. At the age of 6, she moved to Natal, in Rio Grande do Norte, when her father was transferred to serve at the Natal Naval Base. As a child, she suffered racism for being one of the only black children in the school. IZA started singing in a church choir as a child and, at age 14, began performing at parishes and other events when she returned to Rio de Janeiro. In 2009, aged eighteen, she enrolled in the Advertising and Propaganda course at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), graduating in 2012 and starting to work as a video editor. In 2015, at the same time, she created a YouTube channel and started posting videos singing songs by other artists.
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Veronica Ferres

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Veronica Maria Cäcilia Ferres (born 10 June 1965) is a German actress who gained fame as Pierre Richard's co-star in the French TV-movie Sans famille and as the horrible Mme. Thénardier in the 2000 French TV miniseries Les Misérables. She also starred in the Oscar-nominated German movie Schtonk (1992). In 2007 she played with Willem Dafoe and Jeff Goldblum in the international cinema production Adam Resurrected directed by Paul Schrader. Description above from the Wikipedia article Veronica Ferres, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Adriana Vega

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Antonia Lopez Arroyo (Madrid, February 25, 1960), better known as Adriana Vega, is a Spanish actress. His debut before the camera was, however, of the hand of Jose Antonio Barrero, in the film "La sombra de un recuerdo" (1978), which starred with Sara Lezana. Vega is one of the exponents of what came to be called the gender of “Destape”, a way of making films that caused a furor in the Spain of the Transition (between 1975 and 1985). Since 1985 reduced his appearances in film and devotes more time to the theater, half in which he had made debut six years earlier. Between 1990 and 1993 she appeared in five films. After that stage her only appearance before the cameras was in television. Since then, she has remained apart from the interpretation.
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Børge Møller Grimstrup

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Børge Møller Grimstrup var oprindeligt uddannet og arbejdede som mejerist indtil han i en alder af næsten 40 år debuterede som skuespiller. Han blev uddannet på Eyvind Johan-Svendsens elevskole og fik sin teaterdebut på Frederiksberg Teater i 1945. Han optrådte på flere teatre i provinsen og i København bl.a. på Ungdommens Teater og Landsskolescenen, hvor han i 1967 spillede skolelæreren i Max Friis stykke "Andorra". Rollen som mælkekusken der mister sin hest i Don Olsen kommer til byen var som syet til Børge Møller Grimstrup. Børge Møller Grimstrup hører til den række af skuespillere som man husker, bare man nævner en rolle. Den rare købmand i Far til fire i byen, der giver Lille Per et stykke sukker til hunden. Den hjertevarme kusk i Charles tante. Den arrige pensionist i Støv på hjernen, hvis eneste replik er: Stille. Hans største virke var på teater og på TV, hvor han havde roller i "Præsten i Vejlby" og i TV-serierne "Regnvejr og ingen penge" og i "Smuglerne".
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Josef Kemr

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Josef Kemr se narodil 20. června 1922 v Praze do rodiny švadleny a ševce. Mladého Josefa vedl otec k umění a po něm zdědil nadání hraní na strunné nástroje. S bratrem vystupoval už v roce 1932 ve Vinohradském divadle a později i ve filmu. Vystudoval Obchodní školu v Praze v roce 1942 a ihned odešel k divadelní kočovné společnosti A. Budínské – Červíčkové (1942 – 1945). Poté prošel divadlem na Kladně (1945 – 1947), divadlem Akropolis (1947 – 1948), Divadlem S. K. Neumanna (1948 – 1950), Městskými divadly pražskými (1950 – 1965) a činoherním souborem pražského Národního divadla (1965 – 1995), kterého byl členem až do své smrti. Dnes je ve foyeru Národního divadla umístěna jeho busta.
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