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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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Paul Bond

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While he is typically cast as the businessman, the Dad or the average guy next door, Paul is a veteran character actor who embraces the challenges of playing a wide variety of roles. He began his career at Canada's Stratford Festival, appearing in four productions as a member of John Neville's inaugural company. After working steadily in commercials and theatre in the Toronto area, he moved to Los Angeles, where he continues to act in television, film, commercials and voiceover. He has continued to work on stage, as well, most notably with Ray Bradbury's Pandemonium Theatre Company, appearing in the highly-acclaimed eight-month run of "Fahrenheit 451".
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Koji Yusa

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Koji Yusa (遊佐 浩二, Yusa Kōji, August 12, 1968) is a freelance Japanese voice actor and narrator. He is from Yodo, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture. He made his debut as a voice actor in 1993 (at the age of 25), after working as a 7th gen member of Katsuta Voice Actor's Academy, in the anime The Brave of Gold Goldran. At the time of his debut, he belonged to Office Kaoru, and after leaving the company, he has been working as a freelancer. He mainly works voicing anime, drama CDs, and dubbing foreign films, and often narrates information programs. In addition to his main job as a voice actor, he has increased his work on events and radio. He was married to voice actress Kanako Mitsuhashi from February 2007 to June 2012.
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Roger Monk

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I started my career in audio in 1971 as a staff engineer at Eastern Sound in Toronto. Eastern Sound was the first 24-track studio in Canada, which specialized in corporate and domestic music recording with artists like Anne Murray and Gordon Lightfoot. It was at this time that I developed a specific interest in surround sound recording and mixing for the then newly developed IMAX projection and sound systems. In 1974 I moved to Vancouver, Canada, and was hired at Little Mountain Sound Studios eventually making chief engineer and remained for 17 years. My forte during this time was recording 'middle of the road' big bands and orchestral music. We were early pioneers in locking ¾ inch videotape with multi track audio machines. In 1987 I ventured into recording, editing and manipulation of audio on the first ever made hard disk based, digital audio workstations. I opened my own "Dick & Roger's Sound Studios" in 1990 and have been a leader in the digital post-production studio market place. With focus serving the corporate, television and motion picture industries. The studios have delivered hundreds of hours of broadcast and direct-to-DVD products. I have recorded practically all types of music; everything from country & western to big band, bag pipe bands to choral groups, rock & roll to large orchestras. I have produced thousands of corporate and promotional projects, for exhibitions, theatre, television and stage shows and dozens of motion picture scores. I have been very lucky, was given a Grammy award for my work with Michael Buble and am a member of the Cinema Audio Society.
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Jean Boht

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Jean Boht (born Jean Dance; March 6, 1936 - September 12, 2023) was an English actress. She was most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's comedy Bread. In a career spanning from 1971 to the 2010s, she appeared in such productions as Softly, Softly (1971), Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1978), Juliet Bravo in the mid 1980s, and most recently in 2004, Mothers and Daughters. In 1989, she was the subject of This Is Your Life. She was married to composer Carl Davis, and they had two daughters. She was a pupil at Wirral Grammar School for Girls. In 2006 she starred on-stage in 'Embers' along with Jeremy Irons at the Duke of York Theatre in London. In 2008 she made a guest appearance in BBC daytime soap Doctors. She starred in Chris Shepherd's 2010 award winning film Bad Night For The Blues. She obtained the name Boht from her first marriage to Bill Boht at that time Manager of the Ritz cinema in Birkenhead Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Boht, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Marvin 'Krondon' Jones III

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Marvin Jones III (born July 9, 1976), also known as Krondon, is an American rapper and actor from Los Angeles, California. He is a member of the group Strong Arm Steady, along with rappers Phil Da Agony and Mitchy Slick. As an actor Jones portrays the character Tobias Whale in The CW superhero television series Black Lightning, and voices Tombstone in the superhero film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Strong Arm Steady formed in 2003, and released its debut album Deep Hearted in 2007 followed by the mixtape Gang Mentality, the conceptual album In Search of Stoney Jackson and their most recent installment, Arms & Hammers. Krondon's debut album, Everything’s Nothing, came out in 2013. Krondon collaborated with Shafiq Husayn (Sa-Ra Creative Partners) under the group name White Boiz, releasing the 2015 album Neighborhood Wonderful on Stones Throw Records. Krondon also ghostwrites for other rappers, such as Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Xzibit. Krondon maintains a friendship with Bishop T. D. Jakes and fellow actor Mahershala Ali. Jones grew up in South Central, Los Angeles. He is an African American with albinism.
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Christine Adams

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Film and television actress Christine Adams was born in London, United Kingdom. She starred on several British and American films and television series since early 2000s. On television, she is known for roles as "Katherine Williams Osgood" on the British miniseries, NY-LON (2004); "Simone Hundin" on the American comedy-drama series, Pushing Daisies (2007) (2007-2009); as "Lena Boudreaux" on the short-lived ABC legal drama series, The Whole Truth (2010); and as "Mira" in FOX's science-fiction drama series, Terra Nova (2011). In 2012, she starred, opposite Anthony LaPaglia, on the ABC drama series, Americana (2012). Adams appeared on several films, such as Submerged (2005), Batman Begins (2005), Eye of the Dolphin (2006), Green Flash (2008), Beneath the Blue (2010), TRON: Legacy (2010) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). She resides in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.
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Simon Armstrong

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Simon Armstrong is a Welsh actor from Llanelli, best known for his portrayal of Qhorin Halfhand in Game of Thrones. Armstrong portrayed Qhorin Halfhand in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2012). He also had recurring roles in the TV series Coronation Street (2013) and The Interceptor (2015). He portrayed Rogers in Nigel Cole's Made in Dagenham (2010). He starred in the Dutch crime action comedy Black Out (2012) and in the British drama film In the Dark Half (2012). In 2014, Simon joined the cast of British-American short Artificio Conceal. The film, written and directed by Ayoub Qanir, was selected to film festivals worldwide including Cannes Film Festival's Short Film Corner, Edinburgh International Film Festival and Seattle International Film Festival. Source: Article "Simon Armstrong" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Libe Barer

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Libe Alexandra Barer (born December 19, 1991) is an American actress best known for playing the role Carly Bowman in the Amazon Prime original series Sneaky Pete. Her younger sibling is Ariela Barer. Their parents are both Mexican-born and Jewish. Barer attended the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (nicknamed "Fame High") where she received an LACHSA Moondance Film Festival Award for her screenplay "On Top Of The World." In addition to her role on Sneaky Pete, Barer starred in the short film Disfluency, had a role on the shows Those Who Can't and Parenthood, and was featured in a commercial for Subway.
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Zorz Sarri

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Georges Sari (Greek: Ζωρζ Σαρή) or Zorz Sari (born Georgia Sarivaxevani 22 August 1925 – 9 June 2012), a Greek author and actress, was born in Athens. Her mother was French and her father was Greek from Ayvalik, Turkey. She grew up in Greece, where she attended elementary and secondary school. World War II broke out in 1939 and Greeces' entry on the 28th October 1940 before she could finish her schooling. During the war, Sarivaxevani (later Georges Sari or Sarri) joined the Resistance and fought with the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth (EPON). Looking back on that era, she herself noted that “the years during the Nazi occupation were a time of happiness and freedom. We went from being miserable to happy because we chose the road of life, even if death had a place there as well. We grieved and rejoiced all together, but we were not afraid. There was one goal: liberation”. She graduated while Greece was still under Nazi occupation and began taking acting lessons at Dimitris Rontiris' drama school. Georges Sari was injured during the Greek Civil War, which followed right after World War II, suffering wounds to her hand and foot from a bomb explosion. She received treatment at Aghia Olga Hospital. In 1947, she was forced to leave for Paris in exile. She worked various jobs while living there, while also enrolling as a student at the Charles Dullin School of Dramatic Art. Sari returned to Greece together with her family in 1962 and continued acting in the theater until the rise of the Military junta, at which point she decided along with other actor acquaintances to engage in passive resistance and no longer act in the theater. That summer, deprived as she was of any means of expression, she wrote her first novel – The Treasure of Vaghia – which started off like a game together with the children who surrounded her. Sari decided to dedicate her life to writing: “In writing, I discovered all that I could not find in the theater, perhaps because I was not a leading lady or perhaps because I was not in a position to choose the roles that the producer or director would select for me. I now bear the full responsibility for my books. I do what I want; what I can.” She wrote numerous books. In 1994 she won the Best Children Literature book award for her book Ninet (which was a semi-autobiography of her sister). In 1995 and 1999 she was awarded with the Greek Cycle of Books. In 1988 she was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Furthermore, as an actress, she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in the Thessaloniki Film Festival. Sari died in Athens on 9 June 2012, aged 87.[3]
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