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Masami Nagasawa

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Nagasawa Masami is a Japanese actress under Toho Entertainment. She has performed in many famous movies and television dramas including Crying out Love in the Center of the World, Nada Sousou, Dragon Zakura and Proposal Daisakusen. She graduated from Horikoshi High School in 2006. She is also known as "Ma-chan" or as Yamashita Tomohisa calls her "Maa-tan". On her radio show, she introduces herself as "Gasawa", a nickname chosen by fans. She is the daughter of Kazuaki Nagasawa, the former manager of the J. League team Júbilo Iwata.
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Triin Lellep

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Triin Lellep (born December 29, 1985 in Tartu) is an Estonian actress and singer (soprano). Triin Lellep graduated from Tartu Descartes Lyceum in 2005, Georg Ots Tallinn Music School in 2009 and Sibelius Academy in 2011, majoring in classical singing. In 2015, she continued her studies at the 8th University of Paris, majoring in musicology. In the years 2013-2014, Triin Lellep worked as an opera agent at the opera agency International Opera Artists. Since 2014, she has lived in Paris as a freelance singer. Since 2018, she has been the soloist of the Orchester du Center Philharmonique. Since 2020, she has been cultivating a crossover style, mixing classical music with pop, rap, ethno and oriental sounds.
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Jiří Kodet

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He came from a very old Czech theatrical family of Steimar and artistic family of Kodet, he was the son of Czech actress Jiřina Steimar and sculptor Jan Kodet. After her parents divorced, her mother married Jaroslav Juhan, a car racer, but he emigrated. This had an impact on the further studies of Jiří Kodet, who was expelled from the grammar school and was not admitted to the DAMU until the second time. He left the DAMU before graduating and began his theatre career at the East Bohemian Theatre in Pardubice (1961-1962). In 1962-64 he was in the Artistic Military Ensemble, based in Pohořelec, Prague. With this ensemble he toured a large part of the former Czechoslovakia. His future colleagues from the Drama Club, Jiří Hrzán, Jiří Zahajský and Petr Skoumal, were in the ensemble with him. In Pardubice, he was sought out by Jan Kačer, who was assembling a troupe for the Petr Bezruč Theatre in Ostrava. Kodet worked in Ostrava from 1963-1965, and from 1966 he played at the Prague Drama Club, where some of the members of the Ostrava ensemble moved. In 1991 he became a member of the drama company of the National Theatre in Prague. During his lifetime he played a number of small and episodic roles in film and television, but it was not until the end of his life that he was able to play major roles, mainly thanks to director Jan Hřebejk, who cast him in his film Divided We Fall, and earlier also in Cosy Dens, which was his most successful film ever. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jiří Kodet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos

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Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos is a Greek film and stage actor, based in Athens. Graduated from "Vasilis Diamantopoulos" drama school in 2003 and since then he has been working as an actor, a playwright and a scriptwriter. He has participated in over 30 theatrical plays and more than 60 shorts, feature films and TV series. Recently, he has been awarded with the Best Male Performance Award both in Athens and Drama International Film Festivals for his performance in Valentin Stejkals' "5 p.m. Seaside" and shared the Best Screenplay Award with Yorgos Gousis and Elena Topalidou for the feature film "Magnetic Fields" in the Hellenic Film Academy Awards, in which he was also nominated as Best Actor.
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María Irene Fornés

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María Irene Fornés (May 14, 1930 – October 30, 2018) was a Cuban-American playwright, theater director, and teacher who worked in off-Broadway and experimental theater venues in the last four decades of the twentieth century. Her plays range widely in subject matter, but often depict characters with aspirations that belie their disadvantages. Fornés, who went by the name "Irene", received nine Obie Theatre Awards in various categories and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for 1990. New Yorker critic Hilton Als wrote in 2010 that she had done "more than her fair share in terms of changing the face of theatre". He added: "No matter how hard Fornés's subjects can be, her work sits in the ear like luxurious reason." In a 2013 interview, Tony Kushner said: "She had terrifyingly high standards and was terribly blunt about what others did with her work. Her productions were unforgettable. She was really a magical maker of theater." Description above from the Wikipedia article María Irene Fornés, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Siamak Ansari

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Ansari, Siamak (born 1968, Tehran) Siamak Ansari has a degree in Theater and Television from Islamic Azad University. In 1995, when he was working in advertisement industry, one of his friends invited him to act in Rasoul Mollaqolipour's 'A Trip to Chazabeh'. Ansari is mostly known for his roles in Mehran Modiri's comedy series such as 'Tiptoe' (2002), 'Dotted Line' (2003-2004), 'The Grand Prize' (2005), 'Barareh Nights' (2005), 'Mozaffar’s Garden' (2006), 'The Man of a Thousand Faces' (2007), 'The Man of Two Thousand Faces' (2008), 'Bitter Coffee' (2009), 'My Villa' (2012), 'I'm Just Kidding' (2013), and 'In Hashieh' (2014-2015).
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Helene Millard

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Helene Millard (September 30, 1905 – September 20, 1974) was an American supporting actress of the 1930s and 1940s. She started her film career in a featured role in 1929's The Thirteenth Chair. During the 1930s, she appeared in 18 films, mostly in supporting or featured roles, but her roles diminished near the end of the decade. She made six films at the beginning of the 1940s, all in supporting roles, after which she left the film industry in 1942. She returned to films briefly in 1952-53, when she made four more films, before leaving the film industry for good. Her final film appearance was in a small role in Remains to Be Seen (1953), starring June Allyson and Van Johnson. During the early 1950s, she appeared in several television shows, as well, before retiring for good in 1954 after an appearance on Topper. She died on September 20, 1974, in Laguna Hills, California.
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Angharad Rees

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Angharad Rees was a London-born Welsh actress and, later, jewellery designer, best known for her British television roles during the 1970s and in particular her leading role as Demelza in the 1970s BBC TV costume drama "Poldark". Her father was a prominent Welsh psychiatrist Linford Rees (William Linford Llewellyn Rees) and mother Catherine Thomas. When she was two, in 1946, her family returned to Wales to live into Cardiff. Rees studied at the Sorbonne in Paris for two terms and the Rose Bruford Drama College in Kent, England. She also studied at the University of Madrid and taught English in Spain before acting in repertory theatre in England. On 18 September 1973, Rees married the actor Christopher Cazenove. They had two sons: Linford James and Rhys William. Linford was killed in a car accident on the M11 motorway in Essex while driving to pick up books from Cambridge University, where he had been awarded the degree of Master of Philosophy. Cazenove and Rees divorced in 1994 but remained close. Cazenove died from the effects of septicaemia in 2010. Rees later married David McAlpine, a member of the McAlpine construction company, at The Royal Hospital Chelsea, London. She remained married to McAlpine until her death. Rees founded a jewellery design company, Angharad, based in Knightsbridge, London, England.
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Yvan Le Bolloc'h

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Yvan Le Bolloc'h (born 20 December 1961) is a French television and radio host and actor. Yvan Le Bolloc'h began as a teacher for four years in Brittany. He worked regularly with Bruno Solo and presented with him several music programs on Canal+ in the 1990s (Top 50 and Le plein de super), until the creation of the television series Caméra Café in 2001–2004 on M6 and its movie adaptation under the title Espace détente. He also made a brief appearance on the M6 series Kaamelott by Alexandre Astier. He participated in the show On va pas s'gêner, hosted by Laurent Ruquier, on Europe 1, then in On a tout essayé, on France 2. Yvan Le Bolloc'h is also a musician and has played guitar for many years. He is a member of a gypsy music group, inspired by the Gipsy Kings, named Ma guitare s'appelle revient. On 1 May 2007, he hosted Ségolène Royal`s rally in the Charlety stadium. In 2017, he supported Jean-Luc Mélenchon and his party La France Insoumise during the 2017 French presidential election. Source: Article "Yvan Le Bolloc'h" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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