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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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Kari Väänänen

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Kari Kyösti Väänänen (born 17 September 1953 in Ivalo) is a Finnish actor and director. Domestically he is a member of the Ryhmäteatteri group of actors. He was introduced to international audiences by Aki Kaurismäki; and belongs to the list of his "trusted" stable of actors. His most challenging role has been the eponymous mafia hitman of Rosso, for which he learned all his lines phonetically, without previously speaking a word of Italian. Kari Väänänen was featured in Star Wreck, a Finnish sci-fi parody where he played the Russian president. He also starred in Jim Jarmusch's 1991 film Night on Earth. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Khairy Beshara

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Khairy Beshara is an Egyptian film and television director. He was born and lived his first five years in Tanta, then moved to Cairo with his mother who worked there. He studied film directing at the High Institute of Cinema and graduated in 1967. He then worked as an assistant director, and moved to Poland for a year for his post-graduate studies, where he met his wife. Upon his return to Egypt, he continued working as an assistant director, in addition to teaching acting and screenwriting at the institute. In the period between 1974 and 1986, he directed 12 documentary and short fiction films. His first feature length film was an Egyptian-Algerian co-production, and took 4 years to produce. It finally premiered in 1982. He then went on to direct 11 other feature films, most of which were critically acclaimed and gained cult followings, and several television series.
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Matt McKenzie

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Matt McKenzie is an actor best known for his voicework in games and movies. He is the voice of Auron in the RPG games Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy X-2, and Kingdom Hearts II. He also provided the English voice of Borgoff in the movie Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Ptolemy in Reign: The Conqueror, and Major Elliot in the animated movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. McKenzie has also guest starred in some well-known movies (Gods and Monsters with Sir Ian McKellen, in which he portrayed Colin Clive) and TV shows such as Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, JAG, 7th Heaven, That '70s Show, The O.C. and recently 24 as Agent Hollister. He also had a cameo role in Clint Eastwood's The Rookie as Inspector Wang. He appeared in an episode of House M.D. as Doctor Fedler, where he talks briefly with Robert Chase about The Beatles. He appeared on two episodes of AMC's Mad Men as Crab Colson. Most notably, he voiced Agent Smith and various Agents in The Animatrix.
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Reeve Carney

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Reeve Jefferson Carney (born April 18, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and actor most known for originating the role of Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark on Broadway and playing Orpheus in the Original Broadway Cast of “Hadestown.” He also played Dorian Gray in the Showtime series Penny Dreadful and Riff Raff in the Fox musical television film The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again. He is currently on Broadway as Orpheus in the Tony Award-winning musical Hadestown, which won the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Description above from the Wikipedia article Reeve Carney, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sabine Varnes

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Sabine Varnes is a Canadian stuntwoman and actress. She enrolled in gymnastics at the age of 6 and shortly thereafter began competing. She won numerous local, regional and provincial honors over her ten year span. She graduated from Richmond High School in 1992 and then moved to Hawaii to further her gymnastics training and coaching skills. Sabine returned to Vancouver half a year later and moved to Whistler/Blackcomb mountain, where she enjoyed snowboarding and made lifelong friends. Continuing with her travels, she moved to Toronto, Canada and then Los Angeles, California to pursue a career as a stunt woman.
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Freddie Francis

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Frederick William (Freddie) Francis BSC (22 December 1917 – 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director. He achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer, including winning two Academy Awards, for Sons and Lovers (1960) and Glory (1989). As a director, he has cult status on account of his association with the British production companies Amicus and Hammer in the 1960s and 1970s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Freddie Francis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nagah El-Mogui

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Egyptian Actor Nagah El Mogy, whose real name is Abdel Al Maaty Mohamed El Mogy, was born in 1945 in the governorate of Dakalia. He received his bachelor’s degree in social work and started his acting career working with Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah (The Three Lights Theatre Troupe) when he appeared in the play “Funduq El Ishgal El Shaaqa” (The Hotel of Hard Labor). He also appeared in several other plays with Three Lights Theatre including: “El Motzawjon” (Married People), “Mawlid Sidi El Marab” and “Ya Ana Ya Enta” (Me and You). In addition to his theatre work, Nagah El Mogy has played dozens of well-known roles in cinema, starring in films such as: “Tata wa Rica wa Kazem Bey,” “El Bahr Biyidhek Ley” (Why Does the Sea Laugh?), “Eyam El Ghadab (Days of Rage), and “El Harif” (The Street Player). He died of a heart attack in 1998 at the age of 53.
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Rip Torn

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Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. (February 6, 1931 – July 9, 2019) was an American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years. He was best known for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black franchise (1997-2002) and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in the 1983 film Cross Creek. His work includes the role of Artie, the producer, on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning in 1996. Torn also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show, and was nominated for a Satellite Award in 1997 as well.
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Kyle Cease

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At age 18, Kyle Cease became the youngest headlining comedian in the Pacific Northwest, where he performed at numerous colleges, clubs and corporate events. At 20, he won the Giggles Comedy Competition and placed in the finals in the Seattle International Comedy Competition. In 1998, he landed his first movie role as Bogey Lowenstein in the hit Touchstone feature 10 Things I Hate About You (1999). This prompted Kyle to move to Hollywood where he soon became a regular at numerous top comedy clubs, performed in several national commercials, and was featured on The Martin Short Show. His next film was Columbia's Not Another Teen Movie (2001). He recently took first place in Comedy Central's Laugh Riots Hollywood contest, and now performs all over the country. He currently lives in Sherman Oaks, California. IMDb Mini Biography By: Kyle Cease
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