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Christine Ockrent
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Christine Ockrent (born 24 April 1944) is a Belgian journalist whose career has principally centered on French television.
She interviewed Amir Abbas Hoveyda, the former Iranian prime minister, in Evin prison after the Islamic revolution in 1979. It was the last interview with Hoveyda before his execution.
Ockrent was born in Brussels, Belgium, daughter of Belgian diplomat Roger Ockrent. She attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school in Paris. She graduated from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1965.
She worked for the CBS news magazine, 60 Minutes, while in charge of morning news for Europe 1 in France. In 1981, she became the first female anchor of the 8 pm news on the Antenne 2 television channel. Afterwards, she worked for TF1 as anchor of the evening news at France 2; and since 1990 for France 3 as the host of different news magazines. She was chief of the L'Express editorial office. For over a decade she presented France Europe Express, a TV show about European issues. She is a fervent supporter of a united Europe, she proved so by signing the Soros letter for a federal answer to the crisis of the euro.
Ockrent held the number two post at the Société de l'audiovisuel extérieur de la France, until she was relieved in May 2011. She refused to resign, saying that she had had to endure "nine months of manoeuvres that have sullied my honour and reputation".
She is a former member of the Saint-Simon Foundation think-tank.
In 2002, Ockrent wrote the preface to Ma guerre à L'indifference (English: My war against indifference), a book by United Nations official Jean-Sélim Kanaan. She is the author of more than a dozen works including: La Double vie d'Hillary Clinton (The Double Life of Hillary Clinton), Robert Laffont (2001) Les Oligarques: le système Poutine (The Oligarchs, The Putin System), Robert Laffont (2014) Le Prince mystère de l'Arabie (The Mysterious Prince of Arabie). Mohammed Ben Salman, les mirages d'un pouvoir absolu, Robert Laffont (2018).
Ockrent is the life partner of Bernard Kouchner, a French politician and the former foreign minister, with whom she had a son, Alexandre, born 11 March 1986.
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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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Ben Kingsley
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Sir Ben Kingsley (born Krishna Pandit Bhanji; December 31, 1943) is an English actor. He has received various accolades throughout his career spanning five decades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Grammy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor in 2002 for services to the British film industry. In 2010, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2013, he received the Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment.
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Morgan Fairchild
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Morgan Fairchild (born Patsy Ann McClenny; February 3, 1950) is an American actress. She achieved prominence during the late 1970s and early 1980s with continuing roles in several television series, in which she usually conveyed a glamorous image. Fairchild began her career in the CBS daytime soap opera Search for Tomorrow as Jennifer Pace from 1973 to 1977. In 1978 she appeared on the primetime soap opera Dallas as the first actress to portray Jenna Wade, before taking a lead role in the NBC series Flamingo Road in 1980 (for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama). In 1984, she co-starred in ABC's short-lived primetime soap Paper Dolls, and then appeared in Falcon Crest as attorney Jordan Roberts from 1985 to 1986. Fairchild has also performed in theater and played guest roles in television comedies, including Murphy Brown (for which she was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series), Roseanne,Cybill, and Friends. She is a board member of SAG-AFTRA.
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Marwan Berreni
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Marwan Berreni, born December 4, 1988 in Paris and died by suicide in 2023, is a French actor. He is the son of Mourad Berreni (director and director of the Théâtre de l'Écho in the 20th arrondissement of Paris) and a Périgourdine, Martine Sarlandie, librarian. He is the brother Bilal Berreni (1990-2013), urban painter, graffiti artist and designer known worldwide under the pseudonym Zoo Project, who was murdered on July 29, 2013 in Detroit. He is the grandson of Charles Sarlandie (1915-1994), chief of staff of the Resistance within the Violet Battalion in Saint-Mesmin, and after whom a village square is named, in Dordogne-Nord.
Marwan Berreni started at the theater in 1998, when he was 9 years old, in The Three Musketeers then in Les Debutantes directed by Christophe Honoré in 2000. From 1997 to 2007, he was directed by his father, Mourad Berreni, at the workshop of the Théâtre de l'Écho in Paris. In 2003-2004, he was part of Céline Davalan's high school class at the Florent School. Then, he was a student at the Conservatory of the 5th arrondissement of Paris in 2005-2006 before training in acting on camera at the Alain de Bock studio. In 2014, he trained at ACP La Manufacture Chanson. He notably plays in plays directed by his father Mourad Berreni: Molière Circus in 2004, Tableau de famille and Cabaret La Fontaine in 2007.
In 2006, he appeared in the short film “Clin d’Oeil”. The following year, he played Karim, one of the main roles in three seasons of the youth series “Tranches De Vie”. The program was broadcast on Disney Channel until 2010. In 2009, he played the role of an athlete for the humorous film "MSS, Mission Secrète et Sportive" broadcast on France 3. He continued the same year and on the same channel , playing Abdel Fedala in the soap opera “Plus Belle La Vie”. This role made him known to the general public, and he played until October 2022 before the series ended the following November. He plays this character in 903 daily episodes and in certain special television films broadcast in the early evening. The actor Rachid Hafassa plays his father, Karim Fedala during the same period (2009-2022). In 2010, he played one of the main roles in the short film "Tears In The Rain" alongside Dounia Coesens (one of the actresses in Plus Belle La Vie). After appearing in an episode of “Joséphine, Ange Gardien”, Marwan Berreni mainly appears in police series and TV films such as “No Limit” on TF1 and “Commissaire Magellan” on France 3. Between 2017 and 2020, he played roles in the collection of TV films "Les Mystères de...": he is Adrien, a gendarme, in "Les Mystères De l'Île", then Father Sylvain Chaland in "Les Mystères De La Basilique". In “Les Mystères De La Chorale”, he plays the role of a young Turk named Kuvan Birkan. In 2023, he is part of the cast of the New TV movie “Murders in Saint-Malo” from the “Murders in…” collection. In the cinema, in 2020, he played in “Vagabondes”, a comedy directed by Philippe Dajoux.
In August 2023, Marwan Berreni disappeared without a trace, after being involved in a traffic accident in Mâcon. His body will be found on October 13, 2023, dead by hanging, in an abandoned farm in Corcelles-en-Beaujolais.
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Michel Creton
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Michel Creton (17 August 1942 in Wassy, Haute-Marne, France) is a French actor.
He came to international attention with the release of Un homme de trop (Shock Troops) by Costa Gavras in 1967. Since then, he played in many films, appeared on TV and on stage (for example in 1989 in Un fil à la patte de Georges Feydeau in Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris). While he was in cinema a supporting actor, as one of Bernard Fresson's friends in Max an the junkmen, and mostly rare in major roles like his thief in Nicholas Gessner's Le tuer triste, he was a leading man on TV: alongside to Claude Jade in Fou comme François. For his second TV movie with Claude Jade, Treize, he was the writer of the screenplay.
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Joel Brody
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SAG - AFTRA member.
Mature New York Actor. Specializing in speaking and non speaking character roles in full beard (long or short). Leonardo Da Vinci look alike. Roles include: ship captain, merchant marine, homeless man, mental hospital patient, God, wizard, yogi, medieval artisan, ghost, thief, violinist, judge, subway rider, hillbilly, professor, beggar, drunk, artist, art historian, mystic, butcher and many other mature character parts.
Fluent in Italian, Spanish, French, speaks German, Russian, Portuguese. Voiceover - Italian, English (also with British, U.S. Southern, French, Italian accents). Lectures on health, physical fitness; sings (legit), dances (ballroom), amateur vegan bodybuilder.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Joel Brody
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Nicolas Winding Refn
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Nicolas Winding Refn (born 29 September 1970) is a Danish film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for directing the crime dramas Bleeder (1999) and the Pusher films (1996-2005), the fictionalised biographical film Bronson (2008), the dramatic adventure film Valhalla Rising (2009), the neo-noir crime film Drive (2011), the thriller Only God Forgives (2013), and the psychological horror film The Neon Demon (2016). In 2008, Refn co-founded the Copenhagen-based production company Space Rocket Nation.
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Arundathi Nag
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Arundhati Nag (née Rao) (Kannada: ಅರುಂಧತಿ ನಾಗ್ - ರಾವ್) is a prominent South Indian polyglot film actress and theatre personality. She has been involved with multilingual Theatre in India, for over 25 years, first in Mumbai where she got involved with Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA), and did various productions in Gujarati, Marathi, and Hindi theatre, besides getting involved in television, director Jyoti Vyas's Gujarati TV series, Haji Aavti Kaal Che. Later and after her marriage to Kannada actor-director Shankar Nag(1954–1990), her association with theatre continued in Bangalore, culminating in realizing the dream project of her late husband, theRanga Shankara theatre, at J P Nagar, a suburb in Bangalore. She was awarded the 2008 Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in Theatre Acting by Sangeet Natak Akademi, India's National Academy of Music, Dance and Theatre. She was also awarded the 57th National Film Awards as best supporting actress for her role in Paa
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Pierre Mondy
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Pierre Mondy (born Pierre Cuq; 10 February 1925 – 15 September 2012) was a French film and theatre actor and director.
He was married four times: to Claude Gensac, Pascale Roberts, Annie Fournier, and Catherine Allary, all actresses. He died on 15 September 2012, aged 87, from lymphoma.
Mondy's first on-screen appearance was in 1949 in Jacques Becker's Rendez-vous de juillet and he appeared in over 140 films over the course of his career. In 1960, he received international recognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz directed by Abel Gance. In the 1970s, his most successful film was the comedy Mais où est donc passée la septième compagnie?. From 1992 until 2005, he appeared in the French television series Les Cordier, juge et flic.
As a voice actor, he voiced Caius Obtus in Asterix et la Surprise de Cesar (Asterix vs. Caesar; 1985) and Cetinlapsus in Asterix Chez Le Bretons (Asterix in Britain; 1986).
Mondy directed four films and thirteen television episodes, and wrote two television screenplay adaptions. He also directed over 60 theatre productions, many of them at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris. In 1973 he directed the first production of La Cage aux folles starring Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault.
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