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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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Bette Midler

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Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, comedian, and film producer. Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Midler began her professional career in several Off-Off-Broadway plays, prior to her engagements in Fiddler on the Roof and Salvation on Broadway in the late 1960s. She came to prominence in 1970 when she began singing in the Continental Baths, a local gay bathhouse where she managed to build up a core following. Since 1970, Midler has released 14 studio albums as a solo artist. Throughout her career, many of her songs became hits on the record charts, including her renditions of "The Rose", "Wind Beneath My Wings", "Do You Want to Dance", "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy", and "From a Distance". In a career spanning almost half a century, Midler has won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a Tony Award. She has sold over 30 million records worldwide, and has received four Gold, three Platinum, and three Multiplatinum albums by RIAA. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bette Midler, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marina Pierro

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Marina Pierro (born 9 October 1956, or 1960) is an Italian actress, model, writer, and film director, who is best known for her artistic relationship with Polish filmmaker Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006). She has been described as an "erotic icon of auteur cinema". Pierro's film career began with minor roles in several Italian films in 1976, most notably Luchino Visconti's final film, L'innocente (The Innocent). She appeared in Dario Argento's supernatural horror film Suspiria (1977) as an uncredited extra before her first prominent role as the self-styled stigmatic nun Sister Veronica in Walerian Borowczyk's 1978 film Interno di un Convento (Behind Convent Walls), based upon Stendhal's Promenades dans Rome (1829). Pierro and Borowczyk's collaboration lasted approximately ten years and comprised five completed films and one foray into episodic television. Pierro's appearances on screen have been fleeting since the late 1980s, but she has directed three short films since - In Versi (2008, also starring), Himorogi (2012, also writer/producer), and Floaters (2016, also writer/producer).
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Jafar Panahi

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Jafar Panahi is a representative of Iranian “New Wave.” He is one of the leaders of contemporary Iranian cinema. Panahi’s work, from his first attempts to discuss social issues to his later and braver discussions of taboo topics in Iran are a creative reflection on the nature of cinema and human society, and are imbued with humanity. In 2010, the court in Iran sentenced Jafar Panahi to six years in prison. In addition, according to the sentence, Panahi was banned from making films for 20 years, giving interviews to local and international media outlets, and leaving Iran. Three Faces was his fourth film (after This Is Not a Film, Closed Curtain, and Taxi) shot after his arrest. The director did not attend the premiere due to being banned from leaving Iran. Panahi is a student of Abbas Kiarostami, whose influence is especially clear in Three Faces, reminiscent of such acclaimed masterpieces as The Wind Will Carry Us and Taste of Cherry.
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Jackie Jacqueline Muench

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Jacqueline Muench, nicknamed Jackie, is a half Thai-German actress, model, singer, and presenter. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany. She entered the entertainment industry from the WTV singing contest which won the first prize. She used to compete in Miss Teen Thailand 2008 until reaching the 15th round and was named "Miss Fashionista by Platinum". After that, Jacqueline had a lot of work coming in. But with the need to study, she disappeared from the industry for a while. Later, she was contacted by modeling to shoot an advertisement for Ponds. After that, Natthanan Chaweewong saw her in the advertisement and therefore persuaded her to act in the drama " Ngao Prai" with Channel 3 and signed a contract as an actress under the agency.
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Chippy Sirin Preediyanon

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Sirin Preediyanon (Nickname: Chippy) is an Actress born in Bangkok, Thailand. Chippy's parents are Sumalee Preediyanon (Mother) and Chai Preediyanon (Father). She has a sister named Nakarin Preediyanon. At 5'7", Chippy enjoys reading, drawing, photography, makeup, traveling, dancing, and going to the gym. Chippy likes playing Badminton and Basketball. Chippy loves furry animals and her favorites are cats. Chippy's cats are named Winter, Chocker, Summer, Stormy, Rainie, Spring, Autumn, Sunny, and Cloudy. Chippy owns a condominium and lives with her cats. She can speak English fluently. Chippy attended primary education at Beaconhouse Yamsaard International School in Thailand with her secondary education at Horwang State School in Bangkok, Thailand. Chippy also attended West High School in Salt Lake City, Utah, and finished her last year of academic studies at the American Regent's International School in Bangkok, Thailand. Chippy graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Architecture Design and Communication, Chulalongkorn University (International Program) in Bangkok, Thailand in 2017.
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Ayo Solanke

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Ayo Solanke is a British Actor born in Nigeria and raised in East London, United Kingdom. He has appeared in feature films such as "Sniper: Rogue Mission," "Tales from the Hood 3," and most recently starring as one of the infamous teens of 'Kettle Springs' in the upcoming slasher horror, "Clown in a Cornfield." Directed by Eli Craig. Ayo Solanke has been involved in musical theatre since the early age of 8 years old. Not long after being raised in England, he moved to Canada at 13. Ayo was 16 when he transitioned from musical theatre to screen acting. He soon was to appear in his first feature film role in "Tales from the Hood 3."
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Gerald Durrell

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gerald Malcolm Durrell, OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a British naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author, and television presenter. He founded the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and the Jersey Zoo on the Channel Island of Jersey in 1959. His memoirs of his family's years living in Greece were adapted into the television series The Durrells, and he wrote a number of books about his life as an animal collector and enthusiast, the most famous being My Family and Other Animals. He was the youngest brother of novelist Lawrence Durrell.
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Alain Romans

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Alain Romans (1905, Poland – 1988) was a French jazz composer. He studied in Leipzig, Berlin, and Paris. His teachers included Vincent d'Indy. He later worked with Josephine Baker and Django Reinhardt. Romans wrote music for 12 films. The most famous of them are the films of comedian Jacques Tati, including Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), with the theme song "Quel temps fait-il a Paris?", and Mon Oncle (1959). Source: Article "Alain Romans" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Lennie Weinrib

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Lennie Weinrib (April 29, 1935 – June 28, 2006) was an American actor, comedian and writer. He is best known for playing the title role in the children's television show H.R. Pufnstuf, Grimace in McDonaldland commercials, the title role in Inch High, Private Eye, the original voice of Scrappy-Doo on Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo, Hunk and Prince Lotor on Voltron, and Bigmouth on The Smurfs. He also was the voice for Timer in the "Time for Timer" ABC public service announcements in the early 1970s. Weinrib retired from acting in the 1990s and moved to Santiago, Chile. Weinrib died in a hospital near his home on June 28, 2006, after suffering a stroke.
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