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Sayumi Michishige

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道重さゆみ (Michishige Sayumi) is a Japanese pop singer and talent. She is a former sixth generation member and leader of Morning Musume., as well as a former leader of Hello! Project. She first became a member of Morning Musume. in 2003, as a sixth generation member alongside Fujimoto Miki, Kamei Eri and Tanaka Reina. On November 26, 2014, she passed her leadership of Morning Musume. to Fukumura Mizuki and Hello! Project to Yajima Maimi when she graduated. She is well known for portraying a narcissistic image in TV shows, often calling herself the cutest member of Morning Musume. She created "Usa-chan Peace" (Bunny Peace), which is a phrase Michishige uses to identify herself.
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Jon Glaser

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jonathan Daniel "Jon" Glaser (born June 20, 1968) is an American actor, comedian and television writer based out of New York City. He is best known for his work as a writer and sketch performer for many years on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, as well as for creating and starring in the Adult Swim series Delocated. He currently appears with the recurring role as Leslie Knope's rival, Councilman Jamm on the NBC series Parks and Recreation. Life and career Glaser was born in Chicago, Illinois on June 20, 1968, but was raised in Southfield, Michigan. Glaser is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where he performed in the sketch comedy troupes Comedy Company and Just Kidding with Jon Hein, he is a five-time Emmy nominee with the writing staff of Late Night with Conan O'Brien. He has appeared in the movies Pootie Tang, School for Scoundrels, and Be Kind Rewind, and he has guest-starred on comedy programs such as Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wonder Showzen, Bob's Burgers and Aqua Teen Hunger Force. He was also a lead voice actor in several animated comedy programs such as Stroker and Hoop, Freak Show, and Lucy the Daughter of The Devil. In 2012, he began a recurring role as Leslie Knope's rival, Councilman Jeremy Jamm in the fifth and sixth seasons of the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. Glaser is the creator and star of the live-action Adult Swim series Delocated, about "Jon", a man in the witness protection program with his own reality show. The show aired its final episode on March 7, 2013. Glaser's Delocated character, "Jon" was also featured as a DJ on an Adult Swim-themed radio station in the video game Saints Row: The Third.[1] In February 2012, Glaser appeared as the spokesman in a series of Subway commercials playing his Delocated character. Glaser was a member of the mainstage cast of The Second City during the mid-1990s, performing alongside future Saturday Night Live head writer Adam McKay and cast member Rachel Dratch, as well as future Mr. Show and 30 Rock cast member Scott Adsit. In Second City's award-winning revue Pinata Full of Bees, which was directed by Tom Gianas, Glaser sang about the importance of not betraying a friendship by pretending not to have legs in order to play in a wheelchair basketball league. He also provided musical accompaniment for the show's climax by drumming in a demonic pig mask, and appeared onstage throughout the show to pass judgement on audience members for laughing at jokes he considered socially irresponsible. Glaser's first published book My Dead Dad Was in ZZ Top, was released on February 8, 2011.
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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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Russ Brown

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Russell Brown (May 30, 1892; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – October 19, 1964; Englewood, New Jersey) was an American Tony Award-winning actor of stage and film. Brown, a stage actor for decades, is best remembered by audiences as Captain Brackett in South Pacific (which he repeated in the movie version) and for his performances as 'Benny Van Buren' in the stage/film version of Damn Yankees in 1958, and the following year as park caretaker George Lemon in the classic courtroom drama, Anatomy of a Murder (1959). For his stage performance in "Damn Yankees!", he earned Broadway's Tony Award in 1956, as did actor Ray Walston, actress Gwen Verdon and her choreographer husband Bob Fosse, among others, all for the same Tony Award-winning musical.
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Daniil Zinchenko

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Born in 1984 in Tyumen. He debuted in cinematography as an actor in Yevgeny Yufit's films «The Wooden Room» (1995) and «Silver Heads» (1999). Later he graduated from the Rodchenko Art School, Moscow. Zinchenko is a director of several feature films, including: «50» (together with Tikhon Pendyurin; 2018); «Russia as A Dream» (together with Andrey Silvestrov; 2016); and «Elixir» (2015). Participant of 16th Venice Architectural Biennale (Russian Pavilion; 2018); goEast Festival, Wiesbaden (2017); 66th Berlin International Film Festival (2016); and Moscow International Film Festival (2012, 2014). In 2019 he received Spirit of Fire Film Festival Award in the category Short Film for the film «Manifest» (together with Tikhon Pendyurin; 2019).
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Sid Perou

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Sidney Allen Bruce Perou, born April 19, 1937 in London, is a British cinematographer and director known for his work in caves. He has been called "world famous in caving and broadcasting", "probably the greatest cave filmmaker of all time", and "the man who brought caving to the masses". His work has received international acclaim. In the mid-1960s Peru worked as a sound recorder at Ealing Studios when they were part of the BBC. Because of his recreational caving experience, he was assigned to work on the documentary Sunday at Sunset Pot in 1967. The documentary detailed the attempted rescue of caver Eric Luckhurst from Sunset Hole. Peru was first assigned to work on the documentary as an assistant soundman. However, due to physical and technical limitations of the initial cameraman and Peru cave experience, he was asked to take over filming operations. It was Peru's first underground filming experience. After Sunday at Sunset Pot, he left his job at the BBC to move to Yorkshire, as he had decided he wanted to be a filmmaker. In Yorkshire, his first commission was for The World About Us to film The Lost River of Gaping Gill in 1970. As a cinematographer and director, Peru has participated in the creation of more than a dozen cave documentaries and more than 50 films in total. headlights. In 2010 Peru retired from acting and emigrated from the UK. Along with Lionel Friedberg, Peru won an Emmy in 1993 for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming for his work in Lechuguilla Cave which appeared as part of a 1992 National Geographic special, Mysteries Underground. While Mysteries Underground won the most prestigious prize of any project in Peru, several other documentaries won regional awards or prizes at cave-related film festivals. The documentary The Lost River of Gaping Gill won Best Television Reporting at the 7th International Speleology Film Festival in 1984, Silver Gentian Award at the Trento International Film Festival in 1985, Pye Color Television Award for Best Production regional in 1985 and shared "best history or adventure film" with Hollow Mountains of Mulu at the Festival International de Cinéma Espeleològic in 1984.[10] The series Beneath the Pennines won the Grand Prize at the International Speleology Film Festival in 1978, as well as the Regional Program of the Year award from the Royal Television Society. Peru is the author of a book about his experiences titled 30 Years as an Adventure Cameraman.[8] In 2010, Martin Baines released a documentary about life in Peru called The Sid Peru Story. Peru's first marriage was to Alison Wellock, a woman he met while planning to film The Lost River of Gaping Gill. They married on March 27, 1971 and had two children: Martin and Tom. Alison died in 1996 at age 47 following an illness.
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Adriana Herrán

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Emblematic actress born in Bogotá. Her real name is Adriana Marulanda Herrán. She took her first body expression classes with actors from the La Candelaria Theater group in Bogota and at the Experimental Theater in Cali. She attended Sebastián Ospina's acting workshop, Carlos Mayolo's film workshop and Pawel Noviski's workshop, among other outstanding teachers. She was founder and director of the theater group of the Hebrew School Jorge Isaacs in Cali. She later studied acting direction at the Rome Film Lab and screenwriting at the European Design Institute in Rome, Italy. She had an outstanding presence during the 80's when she formed an interesting duo with Cali director Carlos Mayolo, who affectionately defined her in his memoirs as "my little star". The filmmaker made her the muse of his films and motivated her to use the artistic name with her mother's surname, which was more sonorous, was related to the world of the arts, was uncommon and had an ancestry with several heroes of the country's history. Herrán was a beautiful, young and disturbing woman whose appearance in Mayolo's films fed the director's proposal with an exotic, sensual and surrealistic cinematographic style called Tropical Gothic.
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Jeff McCarthy

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Jeffrey Charles "Jeff" McCarthy is an American actor. He made guest star appearances on television shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Ed, Designing Women, Cheers, Freddy's Nightmares, Matlock, and In the Heat of the Night. McCarthy was the voice of the Chuck Jones' creation, Michigan J. Frog, for the WB television network. McCarthy played the father of Wayne (Freddy Geiger) on the short lived CBS show Love Monkey. McCarthy played Albert Schweitzer in Albert Schweitzer: Called to Africa, a TV film on PBS.
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Khairiya A-Mansour

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an esteemed female Iraqi director, born in Baghdad in 1958. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad and later pursued a Master's degree in Television Direction from the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo in 1987. Starting as an assistant director, she collaborated with prominent Egyptian filmmakers such as Salah Abu Seif and Youssef Chahine. [Director's Name] directed two feature films, "6/6" and "One Hundred Percent," and over 40 documentary films across Iraq, Egypt, Syria, and Jordan from 1980 to 2003.
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Ray Comfort

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Ray Comfort is the Founder/President/CEO of Living Waters Publications. After relocating from New Zealand to Southern California in the late 1980s, Comfort introduced a long line of pastors and churches to a biblical teaching which he called Hell's Best Kept Secret. The positive and enthusiastic response that followed took the Living Waters Publications ministry to a whole new level. From humble beginnings, LWP has become an internationally recognized ministry, reaching the lost and equipping Christians with every necessary resource to fulfill the great commission. Alongside Kirk Cameron, Comfort co-hosts the award-winning television program The Way of the Master, which airs in 123 countries around the world. Comfort is a best-selling author of more than 80 books. He and his wife, Sue, live in Southern California, where they have three grown children.
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