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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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Paprika Steen

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paprika Steen (born 3 November 1964) is a Danish actress and film director best known for her performances in the films Festen, The Idiots and Open Hearts. Steen was the first Danish actress since Karin Nellemose in 1949 to win both Best Actress (for Okay) and Best Supporting Actress (Open Hearts) in the same year at the Robert Festival, the Danish equivalent of the Oscars. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paprika Steen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Arturo de Córdova

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Arturo de Córdova (born Arturo García Rodríguez; 7 May 1907 – 3 November 1973) was a Mexican film actor. He made over one hundred films in all. Arturo García Rodríguez was born in Mérida, Yucatán. Most of Córdova's films were made in Mexico and he became a major motion picture actor in Latin America and Spain winning three Silver Ariel's and received four other nominations. Córdova starred in the several American films during the 1940s including For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Frenchman's Creek (1944), Incendiary Blonde (1945), and New Orleans (1947).
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Charles H. Schneer

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Born in Norfolk, Virginia, he graduated from Columbia University in 1940. Serving in the US Army's Signal Corps Photographic Unit during the war, and moved to Hollywood following demobilisation. After joining Columbia Pictures, he was introduced to Harryhausen by a mutual friend from Schneer's time in the Army.[1] Together they made It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), about a giant octopus that wreaks havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge. The octopus had only six tentacles, which Schneer is reported to have been correct in claiming no one would notice.[2] This film made use of stop-motion photography which the two men were to use to greater effect in later films including Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), and Clash of the Titans (1981). In 1960, he moved his base of operations to London, where he remained for 45 years. Beside the fantasy films, he also produced the film version of the stage musical Half a Sixpence (1967) starring Tommy Steele and Hellcats of the Navy (1957), the only film starring both Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan (as Nancy Davis).[3] Schneer died in Boca Raton, Florida, aged 88.
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Man Mountain Dean

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Frank Simmons Leavitt (June 30, 1891 – May 29, 1953) was an American professional wrestler of the early 1900s, known by the ring name Man Mountain Dean. Leavitt wrestled with limited success at first, and after an injury took a job as a police officer in Miami, Florida. Here he met his wife, Doris Dean, who also became his manager. At her suggestion, in 1932 he adopted the nickname "Man Mountain" and substituted the more Anglo-Saxon-sounding last name of Dean. At a stocky 5'11" and weighing over 300 pounds, Dean was an imposing figure. He also grew a long, full beard as part of his ring persona. After a successful wrestling tour of Germany which had been booked by his wife, Doris Dean, he was invited to take a job in the UK as stunt-double for Charles Laughton in the movie The Private Life of Henry VIII. This would be the beginning of a subsidiary movie career for Dean, who would appear in various roles in twelve other movies, playing himself in five of them. One of the movies in which he portrayed himself was the Joe E. Brown comedy The Gladiator, a 1938 adaptation of Philip Gordon Wylie's 1930 novel Gladiator.
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Anil Kapoor

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Living in a Chawl in Tilak Nagar, Punjabi-speaking Anil was born in 1959 to Surinder and Nirmal aka Suchitra Kapoor. He has an elder brother, Boney, a sister, Reena, and a younger brother, Sanjay. His dad used to be Shammi Kapoor's Secretary. A loner, without many friends, he studied in the nearby O.L.P.S. (Our Lady of Perpetual Succor) School, and was an ardent fan of Bollywood flicks that were telecast during the Ganesh Maha Utsav every year. He was a fan of Raj Kapoor, and it was this that influenced his acting, and people saw him as a mimic of the legendary showman. He landed a role as a child artiste with Shashi Kapoor in the lead, but the movie (Tu Payal Main Geet) was never released. After school, he went to study in St. Xaviers College. He commuted by bus and train from Chembur to Bombay V.T., and the walked the rest of the way. It was here that he met Mazhar Khan. A distracted Anil was kicked out of College in the second year due to his lack of presence. His attempts to join the Pune Film Institute were in vain, as he failed in the written examination. He then decided to join Roshan Taneja's Acting school. He first appeared on the silver screen in Hamhare Tumhare in a character role. His first lead role was in 'Woh 7 Din' and from thence on there has been no looking back. He has acted in close to a 100 movies, and has 5 in production. He has produced two movies (Gandhi My Father & Badhaai Ho Badhaai), as well as been a Casting Director/Outdoor In charge for 'Hum Paanch'. Kapoor's first role in an international film was in Danny Boyle's 2008 Academy Award-winning film Slumdog Millionaire, for which he shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. His performance in the eighth season of the action series 24 generated rave reviews from the American press Globally, Anil Kapoor is one of the most recognized Indian actors. Anil met wealthy and chic model, Sindhi-speaking Sunita Bhambhani, and married her in 1984. Since then they have given birth to 3 children, kapoor has two daughters and a son Harshwardhan Kapoor.Kapoor's elder daughter is actress Sonam Kapoor. Rhea Kapoor attended school in New York and is now a producer in Mumbai.
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Élodie Navarre

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Élodie Navarre (born 21 January 1979) is a French actress. Navarre was discovered at 16 when she was spotted on the Paris metro by a casting director and, a year later, appeared in the television film Clara et le Juge. She studied at the Conservatoire d’art dramatique in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and, aged 20, began her professional career as an actor, appearing at the Théâtre de la Criée in Marseille.[1] When she was 22, Navarre suffered multiple fractures after being hit by a car while on holiday in Greece, taking a year to recover. She has since appeared in theatre, film and television.
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Nine Kornchid Boonsathitpakdee

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Nine Kornchid Boonsathitpakdee is a Thai actor, model, and singer. He is famously known by many for his role as Kit in the hit Thai-BL Series "2 Moons 2" under Motive Village in 2019. Together with the other main cast of 2 Moons 2, they debuted as a Thai boy group named "OXQ" still under Motive Village. OXQ debuted on June 4, 2020 with the digital single "ผมเองครับ(ME)". Their group name stands for "Ordinary X Quake". All members were main roles in the drama '2 Moons 2'. The group presumably disbanded in 2020 after multiple ongoing controversies and all members leaving the company. He is also a trainee under Insight Entertainment. On April 24, 2021, he debuted as a member of the International boy group INTO1 after receiving 5th place in Chuang 2021. He can speak English, Thai, Chinese and Japanese. He is Thai with Chinese Descent.
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Talaat Zein

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Although Tal’aat was born in Alexandria he was raised in Cairo. His grandfather was an officer in the Egyptian army during the reign of King Fouad and was the governor-general of the town of Port Sudan. Whilst there his grandfather married a Sudanese woman. Zein began his career as a musician in a group called “Qittat Sagheera” (“Miniature Cats”) but later transferred to singing. He first rose to fame when he performed a song titled “Ta’aaly” (“Come Here”) with A’mr Diab. Zein has performed alongside Yahya Al A’alamy in the television series “Al Hawwy”.
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Chantal Nobel

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Chantal Nobel (born Chantal Bonneau, 23 November 1948) is a French actress. Chantal Nobel is mostly known for having played the main female role of Florence Berg in the French successful television series Châteauvallon. After having participated at the Dakar Rally with Georges Groine, her career brutally ended on 28 April 1985. After the broadcast of an episode of the television program Champs-Élysées, she was victim of a terrible car accident in a Porsche 924 Carrera GT driven by the singer Sacha Distel, during the trip in the village of Maltaverne, a small village located next to Tracy-sur-Loire. After six weeks in a coma, the face grievously injured and handicapped for life, she left the media to go to the South of France, ending at the same time the series Châteauvallon. She filed a complaint against Sacha Distel, who was then sentenced to one year in prison for involuntary injuries. During her hospitalization in 1985, three paparazzi entered her hospital room to take pictures of her against her will. The affair was followed with a condemnation of the paparazzi. The jurisprudence of the Court of Appeal of Paris on 17 March 1986, expanded the notion of domicile respect, indicating that the hospital room was considered as the private domicile of the patient during the recovery. Chantal Nobel was born in Rouen in the department of Seine-Maritime, and has an older brother named Jacky. She is married to Jean-Louis Julian, a jeweller at Saint-Tropez and Courchevel, with whom she has one daughter named Anne-Charlotte. She also had from a previous relationship with producer Jacques-Henri Marin another daughter named Alexandra, born in 1971. Source: Article "Chantal Nobel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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