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Rita Guedes

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is a Brazilian actress and producer . [ 1 ] Biography At the age of 14, Rita joined the theater group Roda Viva, which performed and developed its work at the Teatro Municipal de Catanduva, under the direction of Tabajara Campos. At the age of 17 she moved from Catanduva to Campinas , where she soon joined the theater company Mambembe: a Sia Santa. [ 2 ] At the age of 19 she went to live in São Paulo . When she debuted in the soap opera Despedida de Solteiro she saw her career take off, both on television and in theater. [ 2 ] Rita Guedes has more than 10 soap operas, 3 feature films, 7 short films, more than 10 plays and numerous appearances in series, such as Carga Pesada and the program Você Decide . She also participated in the music video for the song 2345meia78 , [1] by rapper Gabriel O Pensador . Personal life She had panic syndrome and reported that the book The Secret cured her, thanks to what she learned from reading it. Rita completely changed her life, and was then named official book ambassador in Brazil
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Semen Serzin

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Semen Nikolaevich Serzin (Russian: Семён Николаевич Серзин; born 12 June 1987, Murmansk) is a Russian film and theatre actor, director. In 2011, he graduated from the St. Petersburg State Academy of Theater Arts (workshop of V. M. Filshtinsky). Chief director of the Etude theater from 2013 to 2015. Creator of the independent theater Association Invisible Theater (Saint Petersburg). In addition to directing, Semyon Serzin is engaged in film and teaches theater arts. Semyon Serzin's performance " Bashlachev. Sverdlovsk-Leningrad and Back" (based on the documentary play by Y. Pulinovich, P. Borodina) in 2014 was nominated for the "Golden Mask Award". But it was removed in connection with the scandal. Bashlachev's relatives opposed the performance. (2014) Was nominated for the "Golden Mask Award". (2014/2018) Was nominated for the "Breakthrough award". (2019) Winner of the festival "Small Towns of Russia" (performance "Heart of a Dog"). (2019) Winner of the festival "Directing lessons" (the play "A Man from Podolsk»).
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Trixie Mattel

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Brian Michael Firkus (born August 28, 1989), known by the stage persona Trixie Mattel, is an American drag queen, singer-songwriter, comedian, and television personality from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mattel is best known as a contestant on the seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race and for winning the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars, as well as appearing on the web series UNHhhh and its Viceland follow-up The Trixie & Katya Show alongside co-host Katya Zamolodchikova. Mattel's first studio album, Two Birds, was released in 2017, followed by her second album, One Stone, in 2018. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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Verne Troyer

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Verne Troyer (January 1, 1969 – April 21, 2018) was an actor best known for his role as "Mini-Me," Dr. Evil's smaller and more concentrated pure evil protégé, in the hit comedy Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999) and Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002). Even though Verne has become recognized as a "Big Man in the business," he has been working in show business as an actor and stuntman for several years. Troyer, born in Sturgis, Michigan, had always dreamed growing up of getting into showbiz. Shortly after his high school graduation in 1987, Verne moved with some friends to Arlington, Texas, where, in 1993, he got his first break into showbiz as a stunt double for a 9-month-old baby on a film called Baby's Day Out (1994). Over the next few years, Verne made several film and television appearances, often portraying animals or small children.
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Lyudmila Tselikovskaya

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Lyudmila Tselikovskaya was a Russian film and stage actress, and unofficial sex symbol in the 1940s Soviet Union. She was loved by general public, but was censored under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. She was born Lyudmila Vasilyevna Tselikovskaya on September 8, 1919, in Astrakhan, Russia. Her father, Vasili Tselikovsky, was an orchestra conductor, her mother was an opera singer. Young Tselikovskaya studied piano at the Gnesin School of Music in Moscow, then, from 1937 to 1941 she studied acting at the Shchukin Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre, graduating in 1941 as an actress. From 1941 to 1992 Lyudmila Tselikovskaya was a member of the troupe at Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There her stage partners were such actors as Mikhail Ulyanov, Ruben Simonov, Boris Zakhava, Mikhail Astangov, Varvara Popova, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Irina Kupchenko, Yuliya Borisova, Lyudmila Maksakova, Marianna Vertinskaya, Nina Ruslanova, Nikolai Plotnikov, Yuriy Yakovlev, Vladimir Etush, Vyacheslav Shalevich, Andrei Abrikosov, Grigori Abrikosov, Boris Babochkin, Nikolai Gritsenko, Nikolai Timofeyev, Evgeni Fedorov, Aleksandr Grave, Vladimir Koval, Viktor Zozulin, Evgeniy Karelskikh, Sergey Makovetskiy, and Ruben Simonov, among others. Tselikovskaya gave memorable performances in the classic Shakespeare's plays, such as Juliet in 'Romeo and Juliet', and Beatrice in 'Mnogo shuma is nichego' (aka.. Much Ado about Nothing). At the beginning of her film career, Tselikovskaya gave a stellar performance in Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1945) by director Sergei M. Eisenstein. However, Joseph Stalin canceled her nomination for Stalin's Prize, and as a consequence, Tselikovskaya did not have any official support for the rest of her career. During the Second World War Lyudmila Tselikovskaya entertained the Red Army troops at the front-lines together with her husband, actor Mikhail Zharov. However, after the war, she and Zharov were censored by the Soviet officials, and both became virtually unemployed. In 1948 Tselikovskaya married Karo Alabyan, a prominent architect, but soon he was falsely accused of anti-Soviet activity, was fired from all government projects, became depressed, and later died of cancer. For the next 15 years, Tselikovskaya lived in a civil union with director Yuri Lyubimov, and their home in Moscow was a meeting place for such cultural figures as Boris Pasternak, Petr Kapitsa, Vladimir Vysotskiy, Fedor Abramov, Evgeniy Evtushenko, and other Russian intellectuals. At the same time, Tselikovskaya did not have new roles to play, she was ignored by official Soviet critics, and was rarely mentioned in the Soviet press. However, she was still loved by general public, and was eventually designated People's Actress of Russia. She died of cancer on July 2, 1992, in Moscow, Russia. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov
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Heidi Swedberg

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Heidi Swedberg (born March 3, 1966) is an American actress known for her role as Susan Ross, the fiancée of George Costanza on the television sitcom Seinfeld. Swedberg was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, the daughter of Kay, a high school English teacher and Jim Swedberg, a laser physicist. She was raised in New Mexico and attended Sandia High School in Albuquerque from 1980 to 1984. Following graduation she moved to Kentucky where she spent a year at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, following which she acted in her first film role, Norman Jewison's 1989 In Country. She followed that with roles in 1990 movies Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael and Kindergarten Cop, and 1991 movies Too Much Sun and Jim Abrahams comedy spoof Hot Shots! During this time she also had guest roles in a number of popular television series, including Matlock, Thirtysomething, Quantum Leap, Brooklyn Bridge, Northern Exposure, Sisters, Roc and Touched By An Angel. The following year she took on the role of Susan Ross in 11 episodes of Seinfeld's fourth season, 17 episodes of the seventh season and one episode of the ninth (via flashback in the 'backward' episode). She made a guest appearance in Wizards of Waverly Place as Jennifer Majorheely. Swedberg was not in Seinfeld's fifth season in 1994 but acted regularly in parts on other television shows, including Empty Nest, Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Grace Under Fire. Heidi Swedberg played in a supporting role as "Brandon's Mother" in the movie Galaxy Quest. Description above from the Wikipedia article Heidi Swedberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Olivier Sitruk

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Olivier Sitruk (born December 25, 1970 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France), is a French comedian, actor, and producer, who has appeared in 44 films and television shows. After considering a career as an archaeologist, Sitruk changed his mind and discovered a passion for theater in high school. At age 16, he began his acting career, enrolling in the Conservatoire National de Nice. Sitruk made his English-language movie premiere in 2008, starring alongside Shirley MacLaine and Barbora Bobuľová in the Lifetime original biographical film, Coco Chanel. The television movie debuted on September 13, 2008 with a viewership of 5.2 million, the second-highest rated made-for-TV film of 2008. Sitruk played Boy Capel, a self-made man who was "the love of [Chanel's] life." He is related to actor Jules Sitruk and former Chief Rabbi of France Joseph Sitruk. He has been married to actress Alexandra London since 2003. Source: Article "Olivier Sitruk" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Jessica Amlee

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Jessica Kelsey Amlee (born July 17, 1994) is a Canadian television and film actress known for playing Mallory on the television series Heartland.[2] She also appeared as Amy in the thriller-horror film Beneath and Jackie Sanders in Greenhouse Academy on Netflix. After more than sixteen years in the industry Jessica has compiled an impressive list of professional credits. With over 50 commercials (Visa, Coca Cola, French's, Mattel, Hasbro, etc.) Jessica moved into TV (Dark Angel, Jeremiah, Smallville, Outer Limits etc.) and then into film (My Life Without Me, Juliana and the Medicine Fish, They, Beneath etc.).
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Dan Noyes

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Dan Noyes is the chief investigative reporter for the ABC7 News I-Team in San Francisco. He has received many industry awards, including 15 Emmys. He worked for CNN, ABC News in Washington, D.C., and several television news magazines before joining ABC7 News. Dan traveled on presidential campaigns, tracked a suspected Nazi war criminal to Germany, investigated the slaughter of near-extinct black rhinos in Zimbabwe, and exposed a Bay Area priest for molesting dozens of children. The priest was eventually convicted and sent to prison. Dan lives in Marin County and is passionate about greyhound rescue and surfing. He's most proud of his sons, including a former U.S. Marine; both are now in college.
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