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Sara García
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Sara García (8 September 1895 – 21 November 1980) was a Mexican actress who made her biggest mark during the "Golden Age of Mexican cinema". During the 1940s and 1950s, she often played the part of a no-nonsense but lovable grandmother in numerous Mexican films. In later years, she played parts in Mexican telenovelas. Known as "Mexican Cinema's Grandmother", García's image is displayed on the label of Mexico's traditional Abuelitachocolate, a company now owned by Nestlé.
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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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Kelli Barksdale
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Kelli Barksdale is a stunt double and actress raised in Memphis, TN. Kelli was a 2 time National Cheerleading Champion at Germantown High School and went on to work for UCA Universal Cheerleading Association for 4 years during college at the University of Tennessee where she majored in Broadcasting. After college she moved to NYC to pursue acting and found her way to Los Angeles and became a Member of the Screen Actors Guild in 2005. She became a member of The Stunt Womens Association in 2011. She is 4′ 8½″ tall.
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Florence Gill
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Florence Gill was an English actress and voice actress.
For Disney, she provided the voices of Walt Disney's Clara Cluck and The Wise Little Hen. She also provided the clucking sound effects of the condors, chickens, hens, and roosters in a number of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Chip and Dale, Pluto, and Silly Symphonies cartoons. She even appeared in live-action in the film, The Reluctant Dragon alongside Clarence Nash to cluck an operatic duet as Clara alongside Nash's Donald, most likely for Mickey's Grand Opera. Her interment was located at Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles, California.
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Samy Naceri
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Samy Naceri was born on July 2, 1961 in Paris, France as Saïd Naceri. He is an actor and producer, known for Taxi (1998), Taxi Taxi (2000) and Léon - Der Profi (1994). He has been married to Marie Guillard since 2005. His father Djilali comes from Algeria and his mother Jacqueline from Normandy. Samy grew up in modest circumstances with seven siblings. An older brother died of complications from drug use. Naceris father left the family when he was 16 years old.In his early twenties he was involved in a traffic accident, which left permanent scars on the left side of the face.
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Janet Gaynor
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Janet Gaynor (October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress and painter.
One of the most popular actresses of the silent film era, in 1928 Gaynor became the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in three films: Seventh Heaven (1927), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) and Street Angel (1928). This was the only occasion on which an actress has won for multiple roles. This rule would be changed three years later by AMPAS. Her career continued with the advent of sound film, and she achieved a notable success in the original version of A Star Is Born (1937).
She worked only sporadically after the late 1930s. Severely injured in a 1982 vehicle collision, the incident contributed to her death two years later.
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Xaria Dotson
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Xaria's first introduction to lights and cameras came at the young age of 9 months in a print ad for Fred Meyer. With both parents working at ABC Kids and Teens, a vocational school for acting and modeling, it's easy to say Xaria literally cut her teeth as she grew up in the creative entertainment market of Portland. Her interests in acting and storytelling truly began to grow as she participated in theater productions during her grade school and middle school years. She went on to study digital media while also working on commercial sets such as Lincoln Navigator and Google, which has helped prepare for larger more substantial roles. In 2013 she won the best acting award as a new talent in the Portland 48 hour film festival for her performance as Elizabeth Jensen in "Red Courage."
In 2018 Xaria landed the role of Tori Carucci in American Vandal Season 2 (Netflix) and currently stars in Crypt TV's new series for Facebook Watch's "The Birch."
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Nicole Courcel
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Nicole Marie Jeanne Andrieu (21 October 1931 – 25 June 2016), better known as Nicole Courcel, was a French actress who achieved popularity through the 1950s and 1960s, though she is mostly unknown outside of France. Born in Saint-Cloud, in the western suburbs of Paris, she appeared in 43 films between 1947 and 1979. After working as an extra in a few films, she won a major role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949), with Brigitte Auber. In 1970 she turned to television, appearing in different television films and miniseries, in which she continued to work until 2004. Courcel is best known for her role in Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cybele (1962). She had notable parts in: La Marie du port (1950, opposite Jean Gabin), Sacha Guitry's Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954), and La Sorcière (1956, opposite Marina Vlady).
Source: Article "Nicole Courcel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Xenia Leblanc
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Xenia is an actress, comedian and filmmaker. After graduation from Queen Mary University of London with a BA Degree in Film Studies, she moved to Los Angeles to begin intensive acting training at Playhouse West School and Repertory Theatre. Her big break came when she landed the role of Young "Red" on the critically acclaimed Netflix original series "Orange Is The New Black", followed by an opportunity to work on the WB blockbuster Justice League. She is currently based in Los Angeles and can speak fluent English, Russian, and French.
In addition to acting, Xenia has had numerous opportunities to work on the production side of filmmaking, including script-supervising the first Russian/American 3D film. Being an active member of the Elizabeth Banks's WHOHAHA platform, Xenia constantly writes, edits and produces independent films and sketches. Some of those appeared at the NYC Independent Film Festival as well as won an award at the MyRodeReel Film Competition .
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Lova Moor
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Lova Moor (born Marie-Claude Jourdain; 5 March 1946) is a French dancer and singer.
Lova Moor was born in La Grève-sur-Mignon, Charente-Maritime. She began her career as a nude dancer. Hired by Alain Bernardin at the Crazy Horse Saloon, she quickly reached notoriety by becoming leader of the troupe and by marrying her employer, who died in 1994. Beginning in 1995 she also had a brief relationship with French playboy Constantin Djirjirian.
In 1986, she released her debut single, "Tendresse SOS" which passed unnoticed, then "Et je danse" in 1988 which hit No. 9 on the French SNEP Singles Chart. Her next singles, "Je m'en balance" (1989), "Danse encore" (1990), "My Life" (1991), "Jealous" (1992), "As You Want" (1993), "Ma Géographie" (1993), "Oh les mecs" (1997) and "Batucada" (1998). A compilation containing another song "C'est vrai" was released in 2003 by Yvon Chataigner. She appeared in three films: Crazy Horse de Paris (Alain Bernardin, 1977), Saturday, Sunday and Friday (Castellano & Pipolo, 1979) and Le Tronc (Bernard Faroux and Karl Zéro, 1992).
Source: Article "Lova Moor" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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