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Hong Chau
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Hong Chau (born June 25, 1979) is a Vietnamese-American actress who gained recognition for her supporting role in the 2017 film Downsizing, in which she played the character Ngoc Lan Tran. For her performance, she was nominated for several supporting-actress awards. Variety wrote in 2022 that Chau had "been prolific in recent years" and that she had "an acclaimed turn" in the TV series Watchmen (2019) and Homecoming (2018–2020).
Before Downsizing, she appeared in the television series Treme (2010–2013) and the film Inherent Vice (2014). In 2018, she had guest star roles in several TV series. In 2019, she played a supporting role in the limited series Watchmen, and had leading roles in the films American Woman and Driveways. In 2020, she had a starring role in the second season of the TV series Homecoming, having had a supporting role in its first season in 2018. In 2022, she appeared in supporting roles in the films Showing Up, The Menu, and The Whale with the latter earning her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Chau was born to Vietnamese parents who lived in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing Vietnam in the late 1970s. A Vietnamese Catholic church in New Orleans, Louisiana sponsored Chau and her family to move to the United States. She grew up in New Orleans and studied film at Boston University before pursuing an acting career.
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Olivia Newton-John
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Dame Olivia Newton-John AC, DBE was an English-born, Australian-raised singer and actress.
She is a four-time Grammy award winner who amassed five No. 1 and ten other Top Ten Billboard Hot 100 singles and two No. 1 Billboard 200 solo albums. Eleven of her singles (including two platinum) and 14 of her albums (including two platinum and four double platinum) have been certified gold by the RIAA. She has sold an estimated over 100 million albums worldwide.
In 1978, she co-starred with John Travolta in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Grease, which became one of the most successful films and movie soundtracks in Hollywood history. It features two major hit duets with co-star John Travolta: "You're the One That I Want"—which is one of the best-selling singles of all time—and "Summer Nights".
She became the second woman (after Linda Ronstadt in 1977) to have two singles – "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "Summer Nights" – in the Billboard top 5 simultaneously. Her performance earned her a People's Choice Award for Favorite Film Actress. She was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Musical and performed the Oscar-nominated "Hopelessly Devoted to You" at the 1979 Academy Awards.
In 1980, she starred with Gene Kelly and Michael Beck in the musical fantasy film Xanadu. Although it was a critical failure, its soundtrack was certified double platinum and scored five top 20 singles on the Billboard Hot 100. She charted with "Magic", "Suddenly" with Cliff Richard, and the title song "Xanadu" with the Electric Light Orchestra.
"Magic" was Newton-John's biggest pop hit to that point and still ranks as the biggest AC hit of her career. The film has since become a cult classic and the basis for a Broadway show that ran for more than 500 performances beginning in 2007 and was nominated for four Tony Awards including Best Musical.
She helped pioneer the music video industry by recording a video album for Physical, featuring videos of all the album's tracks and three of her older hits. The video album earned her a fourth Grammy and was aired as an ABC prime-time special, Let's Get Physical, becoming a top-10 Nielsen hit.
She teamed up with Travolta again in 1983 for the critically and commercially unsuccessful movie Two of a Kind, redeemed by its platinum soundtrack featuring "Twist of Fate", and a new duet with Travolta, "Take a Chance"Iowa.
In 2002, she was inducted into Australia's ARIA Hall of Fame and, in 2015, she was inducted into the Music Victoria Hall of Fame. In recognition for "her work as an entertainer and philanthropist", she was bestowed Australia's highest honor, the Companion of the Order of Australia, in June 2019.
In 2008, she raised funds to help build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia. She led a three-week, 228 km walk along the Great Wall of China, joined by various celebrities and cancer survivors throughout her trek. The walk symbolised the steps cancer patients must take on their road to recovery.
She was a a long-time activist for environmental and animal rights issues. She battled breast cancer three times and was an advocate for breast cancer research and health awareness. Her business ventures included launching several product lines for Koala Blue and co-owning the Gaia Retreat & Spa in Australia.
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Lauren Francesca
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Lauren Francesca is originally from Queens, New York but currently resides in Los Angeles, California. Lauren is currently best known for running her own YouTube Channel called 'iwantmylauren' featuring comedy, Vlogs, beauty advice and much more. Her channel has gained over 200,000 subscribers and 27 Million views worldwide, mostly from the USA, UK and Europe.
Before her channel, Lauren became famous through one of the largest YouTube channels in the United States, Barely Productions (Formerly Barely Political). Lauren portrayed Lady Gaga in most of their parodies, and also acted as other celebrities including Iggy Azalea.
Lauren has also created her own YouTube character and series known as 'Space Girl', that has been shown on both her channel and Barely Productions. It follows the day to day adventures of a human girl who has ventured into space, conquering evil aliens and creatures. Two YouTube 360 videos of Space Girl have been published and have since became viral across the web.
Besides YouTube, Lauren is also an actress. She is know for her roles on indie horror movies.
Lauren has modeled for various non-nude shoots with Playboy inc. She has shared her shoots via Playboy to her vine account, including posing with classic cars, and most notably, as her own character Space Girl.
She is an American citizen.
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Ray Kurzweil
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Raymond "Ray" Kurzweil (born February 12, 1948) is an American author, inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.
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Julio Alemán
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Julio Méndez Alemán (November 29, 1933 – April 11, 2012) was a Mexican actor.
Alemán was born in Morelia, Michoacán. After studying to be an agronomical engineer, he turned to show business. His first film was El Zarco in 1957. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the MC of the Mexican version of the Italianchildren's puppet show Topo Gigio. Alemán appeared in more than 151 films and was elected, for a period, chairman of the Mexican actors' union, the Asociación Nacional de Actores (National Actors' Association). Alemán died in Mexico City on April 11, 2012. He had been diagnosed with lung cancer. His remains were cremated and a memorial service was held on April 12, 2012, in Mexico City.
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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.
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Jayde Martinez
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Jayde Martinez is a multifaceted talent known for her roles in “The Zuzax,” “Flamin’ Hot,” “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar,”and “Night of the Starlings.” Beyond acting, she’s featured on the cover of the New Mexico Ranch raised kids book, showcasing her diverse skills. With 9 years of ballet and jazz experience, horseback riding since the age of 4, and advanced piano proficiency, Jayde thrives in performance environments. Her outgoing and independent nature, coupled with a mature outlook, sets her apart. A songwriter and singer, Jayde also excels in leadership, making her mark as an amazing big sister to Aspen.
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Amr Adib
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An Egyptian TV presenter, who graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communication at Cairo University. He participated in many films, most notably The Night of the Baby Doll. He is known for raising important issues in his program Cairo Today, which made him one of the most famous talk show hosts in Egypt and the Arab world. He is the Executive Director of Nogoum FM Radio, and he also served as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Al-Alam Al-Youm. He is the son of the late scriptwriter Abdel-Hay Adib, the brother of the prominent journalist Imad al-Din Adib, and director Adel Adib, and the husband of the TV presenter Lamis al-Hadidi.
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Karen Gillan
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Karen Gillan (born November 28, 1987) is a Scottish actress, director, and screenwriter from Inverness, Scotland. She played the role of Amy Pond, companion to the Eleventh Doctor, in the BBC One science fiction series Doctor Who (2010–2013). In film, she portrayed Nebula in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), and also played Ruby Roundhouse in the box-office hit Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). In 2018, she released her first feature film as writer and director, titled The Party's Just Beginning.
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Aqeila Rateb
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Aqeila Rateb was an Egyptian actress, born in 1916, graduated from the Tawfiq Coptic School, and became famous in her beginning with her beautiful voice, then she joined the band Ali Al-Kassar and Aziz Eid Al-Ghaniat Al-Dhna’iyya in Cairo in the thirties, to storm the field of cinema in the 1940s, to participate in many works, including (the three horsemen) Then her work continued until the late eighties and one of her most prominent works (Watch out for men, Mama, Cairo 30, some go to the authorized twice, the Zizi family), and she passed away in 1999.
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