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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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Victoria Yeates

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Victoria Natalie Yeates (born 19 April 1983) is an English actress. She is best known for her role as Sister Winifred in the period drama series Call the Midwife. She also appeared in the film Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and its sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Yeates was born and raised in Bournemouth, Dorset and practised ballet dancing as a child. In 2006, she earned a degree in acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). She began her career on the stage, earning critical praise for her roles in Noël Coward's Private Lives, in the Rookery Nook and in Michael McClure's The Beard. In 2017, she began touring in a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible. In 2014, she joined the cast of the BBC period drama Call the Midwife as Sister Winifred, a midwife who moves to Poplar, London in the late 1950s to work at Nonnatus House. She became engaged to musician Paul Housden in 2016 in South Africa, during filming for the Call the Midwife Christmas special. They reside in London and married in June 2018.
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Dennis Farina

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Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013) was an American actor. Often typecast as a mobster or police officer, he is known for roles such as FBI Agent Jack Crawford in Manhunter, mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty, Cousin Avi in Snatch, and Walt Miller in New Girl. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. His last major television role was in HBO's Luck, which premiered on January 29, 2012.
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Julia Vignali

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Julia Vignali (born 13 July 1975) is a French actress and television presenter. After studying at commerce at the Grenoble School of Management, Julia Vignali briefly worked for the marketing service of Polydor Records at Universal Music, before appearing in several advertisements. From 2010 to 2012, she presented the weather at La Matinale on Canal+ and then presented Les Maternelles on France 5. She left the program three years later at the end of the 2015 season, replaced by Sidonie Bonnec. The same year, she joined the program C à vous on the same channel, where she is a replacing columnist, while Anne-Elizabeth Lemoine occasionally presents the program. In September 2016, she is a columnist in the new radio program of Alessandra Sublet titled La Cour des grands and broadcast in the late afternoon on Europe 1. In October 2016, she joined TF1 to present with Laurent Mariotte the morning program #WEEKEND broadcast on every Saturday. In October 2017, she replaced Faustine Bollaert on presenting the pastry contest Le Meilleur Pâtissier on M6 with Cyril Lignac and Mercotte. That same year, she participated at the special program 40 ans du Puy du Fou: Les animateurs font le spectacle, in which she portrayed one of the dancers fom the show Mousquetaire de Richelieu. On 22 October 2018, she presented at the second part of the evening on M6 a dating program titled Mon admirateur secret. On 30 December 2018, she co-hosted at the first part of the evening on M6 with Ophélie Meunier a retrospective of the year titled Ils ont fait 2018. In 2021, she announced that she left the channel M6 to focus on film activities and also productions. She announced ending the presentation of Le Meilleur Pâtissier and Mon admirateur secret. In May 2021, France 2 finally announced the arrival of Julia Vignali for September. Since 23 August 2021, she presents from Monday to Thursday with Thomas Sotto the morning program Télématin. Julia Vignali was born in Paris to Italian parents from Parma in the region of Emilia-Romagna. She is the mother of a boy named Luigi. She married in 2012 a screenwriter named Julien, with whom she has a son. They separated in 2014. In February 2016, she and Kad Merad officialize their relationship at the ceremony of the Magritte Awards in Belgium. Source: Article "Julia Vignali" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ross McCall

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Ross McCall  (b. 13 January 1976, Port Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish actor notable for his role as Cpl. Joseph Liebgott in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. His first notable screen role was at the age of 13 when he appeared as Freddie Mercury in the 1989 promotional video for the Queen song "The Miracle", the role for which he was picked out of a large number of applicants. In 1993, McCall was featured in BBC children's TV series The Return of the Borrowers. In 2005 Ross co-starred in the independent drama film Green Street. He played Kenny Battaglia in the television series, Crash, on the Starz network. He reprised his role as Dave in the 2009 straight-to-video sequel Green Street 2: Stand Your Ground. In 2008, he co-starred in an After Dark Horrorfest film, Autopsy. McCall was raised Roman Catholic. He was engaged to actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, with whom he Guest starred in an episode of Ghost Whisperer. On 5 January 2009, People Magazine reported that Hewitt called off their engagement in late 2008. He is a supporter of Celtic F.C., and trained at Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead. On 23 February 2010, he appeared as a guest star on White Collar on the episode "Bottlenecked". Ross was portrayed as Matthew Keller. He reprised the role in episode 14 of White Collar season 2. On 6 March 2010, in an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Sheridan Smith revealed that she and McCall had begun dating after a 10 year friendship. On 1 June 2010, he appeared as a guest star on Luther. He starts production on the feature film 'The Guest Room', shooting at the Sunset Gower studios in LA in July 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ross McCall, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Albert Austin

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Albert Austin (13 December 1881 or 1885 – 17 August 1953) was an actor, film star, director and script writer, noted mainly for his work in Charlie Chaplin films. He was the brother of actor William Austin. He was born in Birmingham, England, and was a music hall performer before coming to the U.S. with Chaplin, both as members of the Fred Karno troupe, in 1910. Noted for his painted handlebar mustache and acerbic manner, he worked for Chaplin's stock company and played supporting roles in many of his films, often as a foil to the star, and working as his assistant director. After the development of sound films, he moved into scriptwriting, directing and acting, chiefly in comedy short subjects. Among other things, he assisted Chaplin in developing the plot of The Adventurer (1917). However, he only received screen credit as a collaborator once, for City Lights. As an actor, he appeared in Chaplin's comedies for the Mutual Film Corporation. Later he had two brief, uncredited roles in one of Chaplin's 'silent' comedies made in the sound era, City Lights (1931). Austin is also seen very briefly (as a cab driver) at the beginning of Chaplin's short film One A.M.. He also appeared in movies starring Jackie Coogan and Mack Sennett. Austin's best known performance may be in Chaplin's short The Pawnshop. Austin enters the shop with an alarm clock, hoping to pawn it. To establish the clock's value, Chaplin dissects it. Austin maintains a deadpan expression as Chaplin progressively destroys his clock, then hands the pieces back to Austin. He had the leading role in Mary Pickford's Suds (1920), where he co-stars as a customer leaving his shirt at her laundry. In that film he appears without his comic mustache. In his final years he worked as a police officer at the Warner Brothers studios, according to a New York Times obituary. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Austin licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Milhem Cortaz

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Milhem Cortaz (São Paulo, December 6, 1971) is a Brazilian actor and presenter. Of Arab and Italian descent, Cortaz started in theater at the age of 11, led by actor Walmor Chagas when he performed in the play O Santo Milagroso, in 1983. He moved at the age of 15 to live in Italy with his aunt to get rid of his cocaine addiction, where he graduated from the Piccolo Teatro di Milano and began doing street theater under the influence of Commedia dell'arte but returned to Brazil in 1990, joining the Centro de Pesquisa Teatral (CPT) and stood out, among others, for his performances in O Melhor do Homem in 1995, directed by Ulysses Cruz. He is known for Carandiru (2003), Elite Squad (2007) and A Wolf at the Door (2013).
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John Baragrey

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. John Baragrey  (15 April 1918 — 4 August 1975) was an American film, television, and stage actor who appeared in virtually every dramatic television series of the 1950s and early 60s. On stage, in films, and especially on television, he teamed up with many of the leading ladies of the era including Rita Hayworth, Jane Wyman, Jane Powell, Anne Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Tallulah Bankhead, Delores del Rio, and Bette Davis. Yet today he is virtually forgotton, partly because so much of his work was in the early days of television, and many of the tapes of these shows have been lost or were never even recorded. Baragrey was married to American actress Louise Larabee. After a prolific career, Baragrey died suddenly at the age of 57 of a stroke. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Baragrey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Ellen Albertini Dow

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Ellen Rose Albertini Dow (November 16, 1913 – May 4, 2015) was an American film and television character actress and drama coach. She portrayed feisty old ladies and may be best known as the rapping grandmother Rosie in The Wedding Singer (1998), performing "Rappers Delight". Dow's other film roles include elderly lady Mary Cleary who "outs" her grandson in Wedding Crashers, Disco Dottie in 54, the recipient of Christopher Lloyd's character's slapstick in Radioland Murders and a choir nun in Sister Act. She was best known to small screen audiences for her guest appearances on sitcom The Golden Girls. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ellen Albertini Dow,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Shera Danese

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Shera Danese (born October 9, 1949, height 5' 7" (1,70 m)) is an American actress and the widow of actor Peter Falk. Biography Danese was born in Hartsdale, New York. Her acting career began in 1976 with a part in one episode of One Day at a Time. Her other television credits include roles on Serpico, Baretta, Three's Company, Kojak, Family, Hart to Hart, Starsky and Hutch and Charlie's Angels. In one of her few roles on the big screen, she played a prostitute named Vicky in Risky Business, the 1983 film starring Tom Cruise and Rebecca De Mornay. Danese had a major role in three of the six Columbo episodes in which she appeared. She was never the killer, but she helped plan the murder in the episode: A Trace of Murder - 25th Anniversary Movie. She has the distinction of having acted in more episodes of Columbo than any other actress (but not actor). She met star Peter Falk on the show, and became his second wife on December 7, 1977. They were married for nearly 34 years until June 23, 2011, when Falk died at the age of 83.
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