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Meghna Naidu
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Meghna Naidu is an Indian actress who primarily starred in Hindi films. She has also appeared in Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali films.
Meghna Naidu is an Indian actress and dancer. Her first major appearance was in the music video for UMI10's "Kaliyon Ka Chaman" (2000), an official remix of Lata Mangeshkar's 1981 song "Thoda Resham Lagta Hai" (in turn, the 2002 song "Addictive" by Truth Hurts was inspired by the remix). She was also featured in Saru Maini's video "Dil De Diya Tha (Sutta Mix)" before starting to work in Indian films.
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Letitia Wright
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Letitia Michelle Wright (born October 31, 1993) is a Guyanese-British actress. Beginning her professional career in 2011, she has played roles in several British TV series, including Top Boy (2011), Coming Up (2013), Chasing Shadows (2014), Humans (2016), the Doctor Who episode "Face the Raven" (2015) and the Black Mirror episode "Black Museum" (2017); for the latter, she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts named Wright among the 2015 group of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits for her role in the award-winning film Urban Hymn (2015). In 2018, she achieved global recognition for her portrayal of Shuri in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Panther. She reprised the role in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022). In 2019, she received the BAFTA Rising Star Award.
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Edward Platt
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Forever and fondly remembered as Don Adams' foil on the popular Mel Brooks/Buck Henry spy series Get Smart (1965), character actor Ed Platt (also billed as Edward C. Platt) had been around for two decades prior to copping that rare comedy role. Born in Staten Island, New York, on Valentine's Day, 1916, he inherited an appreciation of music on his mother's side. He spent a part of his childhood in Kentucky and in upstate New York where he attended Northwood, a private school in Lake Placid, and was a member of the ski jump team. He majored in romantic languages at Princeton University but left a year later to study at the Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati after his thoughts turned to a possible operatic career. He later was accepted into Juilliard.
Instead of opera, however, Ed first became a band vocalist with Paul Whiteman and Orchestra. He then sang bass as part of the Mozart Opera Company in New York. With the Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company in 1942, he appeared in the operettas "The Mikado," "The Gondoliers" and "The Pirates of Penzance".
WWII interrupted his early career. Ed served as a radio operator with the army and would find himself on radio again in the post-war years where his deep, resonant voice proved ideal. A number of musical comedy roles also came his way again. In 1947, he made it to Broadway with the musical "Allegro." Star José Ferrer took an interest in Ed while they both were appearing in "The Shrike" on Broadway in 1952.
Around 1953, Edward moved to Texas to be near his brother and began anchoring the local news and kiddie birthday party show called "Uncle Eddie's Kiddie Party." Ferrer remembered Platt and invited him to Hollywood where Ferrer was starring in the film version of The Shrike (1955). Ed recreated his stage role. He also earned fine notices as James Dean's understanding juvenile officer in the classic film Rebel Without a Cause (1955).
This led to a plethora of film and TV support offers where the balding actor made fine use of his dark, rich voice, stern intensity and pragmatic air, portraying a slew of professional and shady types in crime yarns, soap dramas and war pictures -- everything from principals and prosecutors to mobsters and murderers.
After years of playing it serious, which included stints on the daytime drama General Hospital (1963), Ed finally was able to focus on comedy as "The Chief" to Don Adams klutzy secret agent on Get Smart (1965), a show that inevitably found a cult audience. Picking up a few occasional guest spots in its aftermath, he later tried producing.
Twice married and the father of four, Platt died on March 19, 1974. Death was attributed to a massive heart attack at the time. Years later his son revealed that his father, suffering from acute depression and undergoing severe financial pressures, committed suicide at his Santa Monica, California apartment.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh / [email protected]
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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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Deragh Campbell
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Deragh Campbell (born 4 May, 1989; Toronto) is a Canadian actress, director and screenwriter. She is known for her acclaimed performances in independent Canadian cinema. Campbell has won accolades for her work, including the Jay Scott Prize from the Toronto Film Critics Association and Best Actress in a Canadian Film from the Vancouver Film Critics Circle.
Her collaborations with filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz: Never Eat Alone (2016), Veslemøy's Song (2018), MS Slavic 7 (2019), and Point and Line to Plane (2020) — have screened at film festivals internationally. She has also featured in two of Kazik Radwanski's films, How Heavy This Hammer (2015) and Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2019), both of which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Çetin Tekindor
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1970 yılında Ankara Devlet Konservatuarı'ndan mezun oldu. Tiyatro sahnelerine IV. Murat oyunu ile giriş yaptı. Hacettepe Üniversitesi Devlet Konservatuarı'nda "Sahne ve Diksiyon" dersleri veren Tekindor, daha sonra aynı görevini 1998 yılına dek Bilkent Üniversitesi Tiyatro Bölümü'nde sürdürdü. Onun daha büyük kitlelerce tanınması, TRT televizyonunda 1976-1977 yıllarında yayınlanan 'Mc Millan ve Karısı' dizisindeki, Rock Hudson'ın oynadığı Emniyet Müdürü Stewart McMillan karakterini seslendirmesiyle oldu. Daha sonra Yücel Çakmaklı`nın yönettiği 1983 yapımı Küçük Ağa dizisiyle çok tanınan bir sima oldu. Beyazperde ile ilk tanışması ise Başar Sabuncu'nun yönettiği ve Müjde Ar ile başrollerini paylaştığı Kaçamak (1987) filmi ile oldu. Bir taraftan tiyatro oyunlarında rol alıp, TRT'de yayınlanan yabancı film ve dizi filmleri için seslendirme yaparken, diğer taraftan Dönemeç (1988), Önce Canan (1988) gibi dizilerde ve Son Türbedar (1996), Kerem (1999) gibi TV filmlerinde rol aldı. Ardından oldukça büyük izlenme oranlarına ulaşma başarısı yakalayan Yılan Hikayesi (1999) dizisinde Sinan adında Kral lakaplı önemli bir rol üstlendi. Bunu Tutku Çemberi (2000), Üzgünüm Leyla (2002) ve Çaylak (2003) dizileri takip etti. Aynı yıl, kariyerinin ikinci sinema filmi Karşılaşma 'da oynadığı rol ile 2003 Ankara Film Festivali'nde En İyi Erkek Oyuncu ödülünü aldı. Yine 2003 yılında rol aldığı Bir İstanbul Masalı dizisi, televizyon ekranlarında oldukça önemli başarılar elde etti. 2004 yılında, Ahmet Ümit'in aynı adlı polisiye romanından uyarlanan Şeytan Ayrıntıda Gizlidir adlı dizide rol aldı. Aynı yıl iki sinema filminde birden rol aldı. Bunlardan ilki 5 farklı Türk yönetmeninin 5 farklı öyküye imza attığı Anlat İstanbul, diğeri ise Türkiye'de çok büyük bir gişe başarısı elde eden, Çağan Irmak'ın yönettiği Babam ve Oğlum 'du. İzmirli köy ağası Hüseyin Efendi'yi canlandırdığı bu film, Tekindor'a 27. SİYAD Türk Sineması Ödülleri'nde ve 13. ÇASOD Ödülleri'nde En İyi Erkek Oyuncu Ödülleri kazandırdı. Çetin Tekindor, sinema ve dizi oyunculuğuna halen devam etmektedir.
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Shraddha Gautam
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After leaving a settled IT job, RJ Shraddha started hosting the morning show ‘Mad Mornings’ on Fever 104 FM Bangalore. With an engineering degree in Electronics, Shraddha worked as a software engineer but realized that she was in the wrong profession and her heart lied in RJing. She then quit RJing and started her career in the small screen by hosting dance reality show for Colors Kannada, followed by many roles in the Viacom 18 Network. She also appeared in the Amazon Prime Original Series called "Pushpavalli" where she played "Vasu" a PG owner role. She gained immensely popularity through this character.
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Sayyed el Araby
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"Sayed El-Araby", an Egyptian actor who started his artistic career in the fifties and played minor roles in
Films and TV series, and due to his strong structure, he played the roles of the fatwa and the military
Detective and gang member. His films include “Jannah and Fire” 1952 and “Something from Fear” 1969 and
"Live
"Mushrooms" 1997 and from the series "The Black Cat" 1964 and "The Journey of a Million"
1984 and "Messenger of Humanity" 1985. He can be seen in the role of the great Baraie in the movie "The Genie" in general
1964 and the role of a political police informant in the film "In Our House is a Man" in 1961, and the role of a foreman
Srour (Mohamed Abdel Halim) leather workshop in the series "Journey of a Million" 1984.
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Rebecca Schaeffer
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Rebecca Lucile Schaeffer (November 6, 1967 – July 18, 1989) was an American actress and model. She began her career as a teen model before moving on to acting. In 1986, she landed the role of Patricia "Patti" Russell in the CBS comedy My Sister Sam. The series was canceled in 1988, and she appeared in several films, including the black comedy Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. At the age of 21, she was shot and killed by Robert John Bardo, a 19-year-old obsessed fan who had been stalking her. Schaeffer’s death helped lead to the passage in California of legislation aimed at preventing stalking.
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Beverly Peer
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Beverly Peer (October 7, 1912 – January 16, 1997) was an American jazz double-bassist.
Peer played piano professionally early in his career before switching to bass. He worked with Chick Webb from 1936 to 1939 and continued to play in the orchestra under the direction of Ella Fitzgerald. In 1942 he joined Sabby Lewis's orchestra. He also worked extensively as an accompanist for vocalists such as Sarah Vaughan, Lena Horne, Johnny Mathis, and Barbra Streisand. In the 1950s and 1960s he worked with pianists Barbara Carroll and Ellis Larkins, and worked with Bobby Short from the 1970s into the 1990s, often performing at the Cafe Carlyle in New York City. He can be heard on Ella Fitzgerald's release "Ella Sings, Chick Swings" as well as other recordings of Ella and the Chick Webb Orchestra.
Aside from music, late in his career Peer also had cameo roles in films such as Hannah and Her Sisters and For Love or Money.
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