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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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Richard Hatch

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Richard Lawrence Hatch (May 21, 1945 – February 7, 2017) was an American actor, writer, and producer. Hatch began his career as a stage actor, before moving on to television work in the 1970s. Hatch is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series. Hatch led an effort to revive the series. However his vision was ultimately passed over in favor of Ronald D. Moore's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica in which Hatch guest starred as Tom Zarek.
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Jonathan Aris

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Jonathan Aris is a British stage, film and television actor, he is the son of the late British character actor Ben Aris but, despite having a thespian as a father, acting was not his first choice. He studied painting at Camberwell School of Art and read Russian and Italian at Cambridge University before training as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Like his father, Jonathan has chiefly been seen in character roles, notably on television as the private secretary to the (female) Prime Minister in The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006). He also does a great number of voice-overs for television commercials and narration for documentaries. He has made numerous stage appearances and was in the original London cast of "Fame - the Musical".
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Gary Chan Ga-Fai

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Gary Chan Ga-Fai (陳嘉輝) is a Hong Kong actor born in 1973. He graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic Institute and worked as a project supervisor in the Government Engineering Development Department. A year later, he filmed a cell phone ad. In September 1986, was recruited by TVB. At the beginning of his television career, he was the host of the children's program 430 Space Shuttle (430穿梭機). In 1988, he was casted as the male lead in the comedy Everybody's Somebody's Favourite (都市方程式). After living in Malaysia, working in China and Taiwan, and working for ATV in Hong Kong, he went back to TVB in 2014.
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Kevin Kaouthomn

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Kevin Kaouthomn (Kevin Dunning) is an actor with an opulent tenor and nuanced character voice with training in both the European and Asian baroque vocal styles, and has studied and taught sacred sound & vocal meditation on yoga retreats and in private classes under the tutelage of Grammy-nominated New Age recording artist Silvia Nakkach. During his years in international sacred voice studies, Kevin studied music in world cultures from India, Bhutan, Tibet, the Amazon and others, affording him a subtle voice with a deft emotional and intellectual timbre. Kevin was the only person to produce a daily gamut of nearly 80 Shakespearean Sonnets in tandem with Sir Patrick Stewart's daily #asonnetaday Shakespeare masterclass for his 80th birthday during the 2020 COVID pandemic. Kevin's effort honors the mastery of this great actor, and the Shakespeare lineage, and is in its pith a love letter to Kevin's daughter. Kevin also has a background in multiple producing Broadway companies to pair with a career caring for the needs of confidential clientele in several esteemed international executive recruiting firms.
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Ryan Hocking

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Ryan Hocking studied at the Etobicoke School of the Arts, where he pursued a double major in Dance and Music Theatre. Ryan's free time is spent with the Award-Winning Show Choir 'SPLASH' and the critically acclaimed 'DancESAtion' both of which he does at ESA. Ryan's passion for performing came at a very young age with voice and piano lessons at the Merriam School of Music in Oakville, Ontario. Ryan has been in many musical productions, such as Shrek in Shrek: The Musical, Will Parker in Oklahoma!, Ryan Evans in High School Musical and Emmett Forest in Legally Blonde.
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Olive Borden

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Olive Borden was beautiful and talented but she became one of Hollywood's most tragic tales. She came to Hollywood in 1922 with her widowed mother. Olive started her career as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and was named a Wampas baby star in 1925. She made eleven films at Fox studios where she earned $1,500 a week. Olive became a popular on screen vamp and her jet black hair was her trademark. She hired Jimmie Fiddler as her agent and was nicknamed "The Joy Girl". Olive lived a lavish lifestyle with limos, mansions, servants, and a dozen fur coats. In 1927 she left Fox after a salary dispute. She later worked for Columbia and RKO studios. Like many other silent stars she had a hard time making the transition to talkies. Her last film was made in 1934. There were two failed marriages and a broken engagement to actor George O'Brien. During World War 2 she worked as a nurse. By the age of 41 she was a penniless alcoholic. Her final years were spent in a Los Angeles mission. Sadly many of Olive Borden's silent films have been lost and this lovely star has been forgotten. Date of Death 1 October 1947, Los Angeles, California  (stomach ailment)
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Mohamed Kelany

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An Egyptian actor since his debut in the clip "Akid in Egypt" caught the attention of him, because he enjoyed a wonderful voice and a grisly face that helped him win the hearts of people quickly, Mohamed Kilani managed to put his fingerprint among young singers with a number of songs, and last year Kilani participated the artist Khaled Nabawi And the artist Haifa Wehbe Vibe in the series "Maryam" and the viewers liked it, with the director Shadi Fakhrani, through the "Wannous" series the role of Nabil, starring the artist Yahya Al Fakhrani.
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Başar Sabuncu

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Başar Sabuncu graduated from Saint Joseph French High School. He studied theater directing in France for a while. During his theater-cinema adventure, which started with acting in 1961, he is the author of 13 theater plays, 10 film scripts, 1 TV series and 18 radio play adaptations staged on the stages of the State Theaters, Istanbul City Theatre, private theaters and abroad. Director of more than 30 theater plays, 6 cinema films and more than 100 radio play series, including the masterpieces of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Gogol, Lorca, Brecht, Genet, Nazım Hikmet and Orhan Kemal; Translator of some plays by Brecht, Genet, Marivaux and Kovacevic. The awards he won throughout this adventure: Special "homage" weeks were organized for his collected works within the scope of the British Film Institute (London 1988), the French Cinematheque (Paris 1991) and the Mediterranean Cinema Festival (Montpellier 1993); His writing and directing works in the fields of theater and cinema were awarded 24 times, 4 of which were international (London 1969, London 1988, Bastia 1989, Ohrid 1997).
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Amina Annabi

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Amina was born in a music family. Her father is Tunisian and her mother is French. Her grandmother was a musician and one of her uncles was involved in the in setting up the Tabarka Festival in Tunisia, so Amina got the chance to see a number of music stars, going along to concerts byJoan Baez, James Brown and the famous Algerian diva Warda. It was at the Tabarka music festival that Amina would get to meet the young Senegalese star Wasis Diop. They became friends and they had the opportunity to work together some years later. In 1975 Amina and her mother, a talented musician and composer, moved together in Paris. Three years later Amina formed her own group, after showing her talent in singing and dancing a variety of music styles, from soul to traditional aigypt songs. The group made appearances in many local schools but it was in 1982 when Amina started to build her solo career. By that time she got involved with Radio Nova, Paris' leading radio station in world music. One of the producers of the station was Martin Meissonnier. He started to work with Amina and soon they became a couple—their daughter was born in 1986. In 1983 she won a music contest with a rap song, "Shehérazade", influenced by Arab rhythms. It was released as a CD single. Amina began performing in Paris around this time.
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