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Eulalio González

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Eulalio González Ramírez (16 December 1921 – 1 September 2003), nicknamed "Piporro", was a Mexican actor, humorist, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, announcer, film director, and film producer. Though González began his career in the entertainment industry working as a radio announcer, mainstream success came when he, along with Pedro Infante playing the title role, starred a radio drama titled Martín Corona. González portrayed Martín Corona's elderly norteño sidekick named "Piporro". Martín Corona's success spawned a film version, Ahí viene Martín Corona in 1952, with González and Infante reprising their roles. He also played a similar role as the norteño sidekick of Fernando Casanova in the El Águila Negra film series.
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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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Bryce Dallas Howard

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Bryce Dallas Howard (born March 2, 1981) is an American actress and director. Howard was born in Los Angeles and attended New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, leaving in 2002 to take roles on Broadway but graduating in 2020. While portraying Rosalind in a 2003 production of As You Like It, Howard caught the attention of director M. Night Shyamalan, who cast her as the blind daughter of a local chief in the psychological thriller The Village (2004). She later starred in the leading role of a naiad who escapes from a fantasy world in Shyamalan's fantasy thriller Lady in the Water (2006). Howard's performance in Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It (2006) earned a Golden Globe Award nomination and she subsequently appeared as Gwen Stacy in Sam Raimi's superhero film Spider-Man 3 (2007). She went on to appear as Kate Connor in the action film Terminator Salvation (2009) and as Victoria in the fantasy film The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010), both of which were successful but garnered mixed reviews from critics. Howard's roles as a "fair-weather" girlfriend in the comedy-drama 50/50 (2011) and as a racist socialite in the period-drama The Help (2011) brought praise. Recognition of Howard widened when she co-starred as Claire Dearing in the adventure film Jurassic World (2015), and its sequels Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022), the first two of which rank as her most successful films. She also portrayed a forest ranger in the adventure film Pete's Dragon (2016) and Sheila Dwight, Elton John's mother, in the biopic Rocketman (2019), voicing Yaddle in Tales of the Jedi (2022). Howard directed the documentary Dads (2019), and episodes of the Disney+ space western series The Mandalorian (2019–) and The Book of Boba Fett (2022). Her father is actor and filmmaker Ron Howard and she is married to actor Seth Gabel, with whom she has two children.
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Anita La Selva

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Anita La Selva is a Canadian actress. La Selva was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She began her acting career in the early 1990s, appearing in a number of television shows and films. In 1994, she was cast as Zo'or in Earth: Final Conflict. Zo'or was an androgynous alien who was a member of the alien race known as the Taelons. La Selva's performance as Zo'or was praised by critics, and she won a Gemini Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 1996. La Selva has continued to work in television and film since Earth: Final Conflict. She has appeared in a number of other television shows, including Street Legal (2000-2001), The L Word (2004), and Rookie Blue (2010-2015). She has also appeared in a number of films, including Mommy's Prison Secret (2017) and The Perfect Husband (2018). In addition to her acting career, La Selva is also a singer and songwriter. She has released two albums, Anita La Selva (2004) and The Way I Feel (2010).
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Laura Hidalgo

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Laura Hidalgo (1 May 1927 – 18 November 2005) was a Romanian-born Argentine actress. Born in Bessarabia as Pesea Faerman Postolow, her family moved to Buenos Aires, where she grew up. Hidalgo appeared in sixteen films in Mexico, Spain and Argentina. She often drew comparisons with the Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr, whom she resembled. In 1954, she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Actress for her performance in Las tres perfectas casadas (1953). She retired from acting in 1958, following her marriage to an architect, and settled in Mexico. Later in life, she moved to the United States.
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Gökçen Gökçebağ

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Gökçen Gökçebag is graduated from Bilkent University Faculty of Music and Performing Arts in 2002. He worked as an intern artist for Adana State Theater in 2005. In 2008 he went to New York and got his MA from The New School for Drama in Acting. He has worked in various theaters including La Mama in New York. He got back to Turkey and co-starred in Sahan Gökbakar's mainstream movie "Celal ile Ceren".He performed in theatre plays "Derme Çatma Hamlet", "Kuslar Meclisi" and "Sahne Denilen Büyülü Kutu". He has also made television series such as "Not Defteri", "Askin Kanunu" and "Sehrin Melekleri". He is now working with Talimhane Tiyatrosu in the theatre plays "Yoldan Çikan Oyun" and "Baba ve Piç". Gökcen Gökcebag also directed a theatre play adapted from the movie "Cheap Thrills" with the same name.
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Matt Adler

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Matthew D. Adler (born December 8, 1966) is an American film actor. He is best known for his supporting roles in the 1980s teenage films: Teen Wolf, White Water Summer, North Shore, and Dream a Little Dream. He currently works on additional dialogue recording for feature films. In 1986 he auditioned for the role of "Bill S. Preston Esquire" in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure being one of the final picks along with Keanu Reeves, Donovan Leitch and Gary Riley. The role ultimately went to Alex Winter who had initially auditioned for the part of Ted "Theodore" Logan. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Adler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kate Fleetwood

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Kate Fleetwood is an English actress. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Lady Macbeth in Chichester Festival Theatre's Macbeth, which transferred to the West End and Broadway. She was nominated for an Olivier Award for her performance as Julie in London Road at the National Theatre. She is patron of En Masse Theatre, and joint patron of Escape Insight Arts, Stratford-upon-Avon with her husband Rupert. Fleetwood grew up near Stratford-upon-Avon and is a graduate of Exeter University. She attended Trinity Catholic School in Leamington Spa. She began her career at the Royal Shakespeare Company during her childhood. She is married to Rupert Goold, who directed her in Macbeth; they have a son and a daughter.
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Byron Howard

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Byron P. Howard (born 1968) is an American motion picture director and story artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation, and is best known as the lead character animator on Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear and the director on Bolt and Tangled. Byron Howard is one of the most notable animators working for Walt Disney and has had the chance to work several famous figures within the industry such as John Lasseter. However, the critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated Bolt marked the young directors step into wide recognition.
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Kennedi Clements

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Kennedi Clements (born January 21, 2007) is a Canadian former child actress. She was born in White Rock, British Columbia in January of 2007. She is the oldest of three children. She began acting at the age of 3 and booked a lead role in the TV movie, "A Family Thanksgiving" shortly after as her first role. It was obvious, even at such a young age, that this was a passion for her. When she is not busy acting she is very involved with her figure skating and dancing as well. - IMDb Mini Biography
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