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Barbara Bel Geddes

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Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in the original Broadway production of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof in the role of Maggie, and also appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). She was the recipient of several awards and award nominations for her thespian performances. Bel Geddes retired from Dallas (and acting) in 1990 and settled in her home in Northeast Harbor, Maine, where she continued to work as a fine artist. She was the author of two children's books and the creator of a line of greeting cards. She was twice married, the mother of two daughters, and died of lung cancer on August 8, 2005. Description above from the Wikipedia article Barbara Bel Geddes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia​
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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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Jeremy Spenser

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Jeremy Spenser (born Jeremy John Dornhurst de Saram, 16 July 1937) is a British actor who made his screen debut aged 11 in Anna Karenina (1948). The following year he played in the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets as the young Louis Mazzini. He played the young King Nicolas in The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier and Marilyn Monroe, and in Ferry to Hong Kong with Orson Welles. In the 1960s, the role offers began to slow down. His last film role was in 1966's Fahrenheit 451 directed by François Truffaut. A little later Spenser retired from acting. He is the brother of British actor, director, producer and writer David Spenser. [biography from Wikipedia]
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Paul-Eerik Rummo

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Paul-Eerik Rummo (born January 19, 1942) is an Estonian poet, playwright, translator and politician who was the former Estonian Minister of Culture and Education, as well as the former Estonian Minister of Population Affairs. Rummo was born in Tallinn, the son of Estonian writer Paul Rummo. Paul-Eerik studied literature at the University of Tartu, graduating in 1965. Rummo has worked in Estonian theatres. In October 1980, Rummo was a signatory of the Letter of 40 Intellectuals, a public letter in which forty prominent Estonian intellectuals defended the Estonian language and protested the Russification policies of the Kremlin in Estonia. The signatories also expressed their unease against Republic-level government in harshly dealing with youth protests in Tallinn that were sparked a week earlier due to the banning of a public performance of the punk rock band Propeller. In the novel Purge (in Finnish Puhdistus) by Sofi Oksanen, Rummo's poetry becomes a symbol of resistance against Russification in Estonia, sprinkled throughout the narrative.
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Victor Campos

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Victor Campos was born on January 15, 1935 in New York, New York. He was of Spanish (Castilian), Puerto Rican and Dominican heritage. He began his acting career in 1966. Some of his credits include: the TV-Series "Hawk", "The FBI", "The Rookies", "The Mod Squad", "Kojak", "Doctors Hospital", "Cades County" the film "The Adversary", "Black Sunday" "Scarface", "Juice" "Sleepaway Camp IV: The Survivor", "Shallow Ground" and "Locker 13" to just name a few. Victor Campos died in Sherman Oaks, Ca. from complications of prostate cancer. He is survived by his daughter Lee Campos Montesino, his grandchildren Tristen Montesino and Trenten Montesino, his sisters, Laura Romano, Elba Campos, Roseanna Rizzo, his nieces Lisa Rose, Kim Libretta, Grace Rizzo and nephew Josiah Rizzo.
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Ofelia Medina

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Ofelia Medina (born April 4, 1950) is a Mexican actress, singer and screenwriter of Mexican films. She made her film debut in Mexico in 1968 with the film La paz and in Hollywood with The Big Fix ten years later. In 1977 she played a hunchback in the telenovela Rina. She portrayed Frida Kahlo in Paul Leduc's film about the artist in 1984. In Canada, Medina was nominated for the Genie Award for her work in Diplomatic Immunity in 1991. Ofelia Madine has also played in various theatres worldwide. Since 2000 Ofelia played Frida Kahlo in the play Cada quien su Frida. In 2007 she came to Denmark, playing in Århus, Copenhagen and Odense at the gallery of Jens Galschiøt.
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Pooja Umashankar

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Pooja Gauthami Umashankar, mononymously known as Pooja is an Indian-Sri Lankan actress, who has primarily appeared in Tamil films as well as Sinhala, Malayalam and amateur films. Following a series of successful commercial ventures, Bala's Naan Kadavul saw Pooja's performance as a blind beggar praised by the critics, securing major awards, including the South Filmfare and Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. She simultaneously worked in Sinhala cinema and was part of several successful films like Anjalika (2006), Asai Man Piyabanna (2007), Suwanda Denuna Jeewithe (2010) and Kusa Pabha (2012), thus establishing herself as one of the leading actresses of Sinhala cinema.
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Isabelle Fuhrman

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Isabelle Fuhrman (born February 25, 1997) is an American actress. She has one older sister, Madeline, and her parents are Elina and Nick Fuhrman. Her career began when a casting director from Cartoon Network spotted her waiting for her sister and cast her for one of the shows, Cartoon Fridays. Isabelle's first acting gig came in 2006 when she booked a commercial for Rooms to Go furniture, and within a month she was asked to fly to LA to audition for shows. During that time, she scored a bunch of commercial and film roles. Isabelle also appeared in several comedy skits on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992), and shortly thereafter her family moved to Los Angeles so she could further pursue her dream. Isabelle's big break came when she played Esther in Orphan (2009), which landed her critical acclaim and was hailed as "one of the most momentous examples of acting from a child performer in years." She has won the role of Clove in The Hunger Games (2012), the big-screen adaptation of literary sensation The Hunger Games. That went on to become one of the highest-grossing movies ever with over $407 million at the domestic box office. Isabelle has been featured in spreads for magazines such as Vanity Fair, Nylon, Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, V, H, Bust and Last magazine.
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Lisa Joyce

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Born and raised in Chicago, Lisa Joyce received her BFA in Acting from the Theater School at DePaul University. She received a Joseph Jefferson nomination for her performance in Adam Rapp's "Red Light Winter", which premiered at the Steppenwolf Theater Company before transferring off-Broadway and being named a finalist for The Pulitzer Prize. Lisa made her West End/Broadway debut in "La Bete", starring Mark Rylance and David Hyde Pierce, and toured nationally, alongside Cherry Jones in the Tony Award-winning production of "Doubt". Some of her favorite off-Broadway credits include: Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron's beloved production of "Love, Loss and What I Wore" and Soho Rep.'s "The Ugly One", for which she earned a Drama Desk nomination. Lisa has also appeared in productions at The Public, New York Theater Workshop, The Signature, Classic Stage Company, Rattlestick, Transport Group, StageFARM, Williamstown and The Studio Theater in D.C., where she received a Helen Hayes Award for her role in "Blackbird". Lisa is a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company.
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Josef Dvořák

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Josef Dvořák (born in Horní Cerekev, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, April 25, 1942) is a Czech actor. He started his career in Kadaň from where Pavel Fiala took him to Kladivadlo in Ústí nad Labem. He was an external actor in theatre Semafor in 1972-1990. In 1990 he established his own theatre company Divadelní společnost Josefa Dvořáka. He is famous for his many movie roles of Vodník. He grew up in Kadan, from 1965 to 1970 he worked in Kladivadle in Ústí nad Labem, from 1972 to 1990 in the Semafor theater, since 1990 he has been the director and protagonist of the Josef Dvořák Theater Company. [1] He first played with Jitka Molavcova and Jiří Suchý, later formed a separate group. Of the hundreds of TV roles, they are among the most famous in the series: Hospitals on the outskirts of the city, Spataces of Chef Svatopluk, There were two scribes, Arabela, Visitors, Cemetery for foreigners, Pubs. In the film he played for example in Jachym, throw him in the machine (1974), Lions Salon (1978), Black Baron (1992). He has been famous for his role as a soldier and, in general, for children. Together with Jitka Molavcova, Pavel Zedníček, Štěpánka Haničinčová and other actors, he produced a series of TV Shows (1977-1990). On TV we can often see her with Jitka Molavcova, who works in the same theater. He also gave his voice to several nightclubs such as Maxipes Fik, Bob and Bobek. As calculated, by the end of 2012, Josef Dvořák was to be heard in 156 episodes of various evening gigs. According to the Mladá fronta Dnes in August 2007 and mainly according to the list of collaborators StB, Uncensored Newspaper, No. 04/2000, was a confidant of State Security, the name Komik, registration number 31 014, from 1979 to 1981. (Wikipedia)
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