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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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Ellen McLain

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Ellen McLain is an American opera singer, voice actress, and voice instructor who is best known as the voice of the maniacal artificial intelligence GLaDOS in the Portal series, a character who has been consistently lauded by many publications as one of the greatest video game villains of all time. Her performance as GLaDOS led to the similar roles of the A.I. of Gipsy Danger in Pacific Rim, and the A.I. of Gipsy Avenger in Pacific Rim: Uprising. Since 1986, McLain has been married to fellow voice actor John Patrick Lowrie, who she often performs alongside in video games.
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Zhasmin

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Jasmine (born Sara Lvovna Manakhimova, Semendueva in her first marriage, in the second - Shor (born in the city of Derbent, Dagestan ASSR, USSR) - Russian singer, actress, TV presenter, fashion model and designer; Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2014), Honored Artist of Dagestan ( 2009). Laureate and owner of 9 Golden Gramophone awards; 1 MTV Russia Music Awards ("Best Performer of 2005"); 17 Song of the Year awards. Since the start of her musical career, Jasmine has released 10 studio albums. Since October 26, 2022 for interference in the internal affairs of Moldova under the sanctions of the United States of America.
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Austin Highley

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Austin James Highley is an American professional wrestler who currently competes in IMPACT Wrestling as Ace Austin, where he is a former IMPACT X Division Champion. He began his career in Combat Zone Wrestling after graduating from the "CZW Dojo" wrestling school and has also competed for various promotions throughout the United States and Mexico including Major League Wrestling, Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore, Florida-based World Xtreme Wrestling and Mexico's Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide (AAA).
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Jonathan Salway

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Jonathan Salway (Teacher/Actor) Jonathan trained as an actor at the Drama Studio in London and at the University of California. He has worked in London“s West End (where he acted alongside Benedict Cumberbatch), for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC and on Londongrad for Russian TV as well as touring the UK, Ireland, Italy and Germany. His roles have included Gerald in An Inspector Calls, Trotter in Agatha Christie”s The Mousetrap, Sherlock Holmes, Frank in Educating Rita and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As a director he has taken award-winning shows to the Edinburgh festival, including a co-devised piece called A Space Oddity and a musical The Selfish Gene The Musical. He is Artistic Director of the Moscow English Theatre where he has acted and appeared in several shows at the Mayakovsky Theatre in Moscow and on tour to Kaliningrad.
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Hannah Waddingham

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Hannah Waddingham (born 28 July 1974) is a British actress and singer. She is best known for playing Rebecca Welton in the comedy series Ted Lasso (2020–present), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2021 and 2022. She has also appeared in a number of West End shows, including Spamalot, the 2010 Regent's Park revival of Into the Woods, and The Wizard of Oz as the Wicked Witch of the West; and has received three Olivier Award nominations for her work. Her other work includes appearing as an ensemble member in the 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables, and joining the cast of the fifth season of the HBO series Game of Thrones as Septa Unella in 2015. She co-starred in the 2018 British psychological thriller Winter Ridge, and has had a supporting role on the series Sex Education since 2019. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hannah Waddingham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Xenia Leblanc

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Xenia is an actress, comedian and filmmaker. After graduation from Queen Mary University of London with a BA Degree in Film Studies, she moved to Los Angeles to begin intensive acting training at Playhouse West School and Repertory Theatre. Her big break came when she landed the role of Young "Red" on the critically acclaimed Netflix original series "Orange Is The New Black", followed by an opportunity to work on the WB blockbuster Justice League. She is currently based in Los Angeles and can speak fluent English, Russian, and French. In addition to acting, Xenia has had numerous opportunities to work on the production side of filmmaking, including script-supervising the first Russian/American 3D film. Being an active member of the Elizabeth Banks's WHOHAHA platform, Xenia constantly writes, edits and produces independent films and sketches. Some of those appeared at the NYC Independent Film Festival as well as won an award at the MyRodeReel Film Competition .
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Anas El Baz

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Anas El Baz was born in Rabat to a leading Moroccan Economist father and a teacher mother. In 2003, he entered the prestigious "Cours Florent" and started a four years training with Mélissa Broutin, Christian Croset, George Becot and Helene Marthy. El Baz earned critical notice for his starring role in "CasaNegra", Morocco's Box-Office hit of 2009, which garnered over 25 International Festival Prizes and won him The Best Actor Award at the Brussels Independent Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival and Muscat Film Festival.
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Trinh Tran

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Trinh T. Tran is an executive in production and development at Marvel Studios. She was an associate producer on Captain America: Civil War and an executive producer on Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. She was also an assistant to Matt Finick and Charlie Davis on Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk, an assistant to Louis D'Esposito on Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America: The First Avenger and The Avengers and a creative executive on Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War.
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James Manley

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James Manley better known by his ring name Jim Powers, is an American retiredprofessional wrestler. He most notably wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s. The high point of his career was teaming with Paul Roma as The Young Stallions. better known by his ring name Jim Powers, is an American retired professional wrestler. He most notably wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation in the mid-to-late 1980s and early 1990s. He also wrestled for World Championship Wrestling in the mid-1990s. The high point of his career was teaming with Paul Roma as The Young Stallions. Main article: The Young Stallions He arguably reached the peak of his career in the WWF when Powers, on March 11, 1987, along with another preliminary wrestler Paul Roma, formed a tag team called The Young Stallions. At first the team had no name, and the original pairing saw Roma and Powers teamed with Tito Santana in a six-man tag team match against the team of Don Muraco, Bob Orton, Jr., and Tiger Chung Lee on Wrestling Challenge. Surprisingly the team of Powers, Roma, and Santana were victorious when Santana pinned Lee, after Muraco and Orton walked away from the match. Following the win, the team lost twice to Demolition, as well as an eight-man tag team match against members of The Heenan Family in June 1987. Powers and Roma finally gained their first televised victory in regular tag team action in late July 1987 when they faced another preliminary team, Barry Horowitz and Steve Lombardi. The team was dominant and announcer Bobby Heenan was stunned when Roma unleashed an off the top rope sunset flip. Fresh off of their first win, Powers and Roma were scheduled to face The Hart Foundation on an August 8, 1987 episode of Superstars (taped August 4), they scored an upset disqualification victory over WWF Tag Team Champions The Hart Foundation. The team seemingly received their name by accident when color commentator Bruno Sammartino referred to them once as "a couple of young stallions" thus naming the team. On February 3, 2010, Powers announced his retirement. In 2012, Powers was hospitalized, and had two hip surgeries. In July 2016, Manley was named part of a class action lawsuit filed against WWE which alleged that wrestlers incurred traumatic brain injuries during their tenure and that the company concealed the risks of injury. The suit is litigated by attorney Konstantine Kyros, who has been involved in a number of other lawsuits against WWE.
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