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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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Marky Ramone

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marky Ramone (born Marc Steven Bell; July 15, 1956) is an American musician. He is best known for being the drummer for the Ramones, but has also played in other notable bands like Dust, Wayne County and the Backstreet Boys, Richard Hell & The Voidoids, and the Misfits. Although he is not the original drummer (Tommy Ramone), Marky is the only living member of the longest running Ramones line-up (15 years) which featured Joey, Johnny, Dee Dee, and himself. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marky Ramone, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Katherine Waterston

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Katherine Boyer Waterston (born March 3, 1980) is a British-American actress and daughter of veteran actor Sam Waterston. She made her feature film debut in Michael Clayton (2007). She had supporting roles in films including Robot & Frank, Being Flynn (both 2012) and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2013), before her breakthrough performance in Inherent Vice (2014). She portrayed Chrisann Brennan in Steve Jobs (2015), and went on to star in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) and its sequels. Her other film roles were in Alien: Covenant (2017), Logan Lucky (2017), The Current War (2017), Mid90s (2018) and The World to Come (2020).
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Will Ferrell

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A graduate of the University of Southern California, Will Ferrell became interested in performing while a student at University High School in Irvine, California, where he made his school's daily morning announcements over the public address system in disguised voices. He started as a member of the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings, where fellow cast members Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and former Saturday Night Live repertory players such as Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman began their careers. It was there he met Chris Kattan and the two became good friends and both went on to Saturday Night Live later. He has also appeared on several television programs, including Strangers with Candy, Grace Under Fire and Living Single during his time at The Groundlings. Will also lent his voice to the armless and legless dad of cartoon family The Oblongs. In 1995 he became a feature cast member at Saturday Night Live during the show's rapid re-casting. He was declared quite possibly the worst cast member ever during his first season. However, his talents of impersonations and range of characters shot him forward to making him arguably the greatest Saturday Night Live cast member ever. During his seven year run he is one of the few cast members to ever be nominated for an Emmy for a performance and played George W. Bush during the 2000 elections. He's appeared in every Saturday Night Live movie since his premiere on the show in 1995. In 2002 he left  Saturday Night Live and was the only cast member to ever receive a farewell from all the current cast members at the end of the season finale show. Since leaving the show Will has pursued a career in films. In 2000 he married and now lives in L.A.
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Kay Francis

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kay Francis (January 13, 1905 – August 26, 1968) was an American stage and film actress. After a brief period on Broadway in the late 1920s, she moved to film and achieved her greatest success between 1930 and 1936, when she was the number one female star at the Warner Brothers studio, and the highest paid American film actress. Some of her film related material and personal papers are available to scholars and researchers in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kay Francis,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Lynn Fontanne

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From Wikipedia Lynn Fontanne (/fɒnˈtæn/; 6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) was a British-born American-based actress and major stage star in the United States for over 40 years. She teamed with her husband, Alfred Lunt. Lunt and Fontanne shared a special Tony Award in 1970. They both won Emmy Awards in 1965, and Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was named for them. Fontanne was also a Kennedy Center honoree in 1980. Born Lillie Louise Fontanne in Woodford, London, of French and Irish descent, her parents were Jules Fontanne, a Frenchman, and Frances Ellen Thornley. She had two sisters, one of whom later lived in England; the other lived in New Zealand. She drew acclaim in 1921 playing the title role in the George S. Kaufman-Marc Connelly farce, Dulcy. She soon became celebrated for her skill as an actress in high comedy, excelling in witty roles written for her by Noël Coward, S.N. Behrman, and Robert Sherwood. However, she enjoyed one of the greatest critical successes of her career as Nina Leeds, the desperate heroine of Eugene O'Neill's controversial nine-act drama, Strange Interlude. From the late 1920s on, Fontanne acted exclusively in vehicles also starring her husband. Among their greatest theater triumphs were Design for Living (1933), The Taming of the Shrew (1935–36), Idiot's Delight (1936), There Shall Be No Night (1940) and Quadrille (1952). Design for Living, which Noël Coward wrote expressly for himself and the Lunts, was so risqué, with its theme of bisexuality and a ménage à trois, that Coward premiered it in New York, knowing it would not survive the censor in London. The duo remained active onstage until retiring in 1960. Fontanne was nominated for a Best Actress Tony for one of her last stage roles, in The Visit (1959). Fontanne and Lunt worked together in 27 productions. Of her acting style with Lunt, British broadcasting personality Arthur Marshall - having seen her in Caprice St James's Theatre (1929) - observed: "in the plays of the period actors waited to speak until somebody else had finished, the Lunts turned all that upside down. They threw away lines, they trod on each others words, they gabbled, they spoke at the same time. They spoke in fact, as people do in ordinary life."[6] Fontanne made only three films, but nevertheless was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for The Guardsman, losing to Helen Hayes. She also appeared in the silent films Second Youth (1924) and The Man Who Found Himself (1925). The Lunts starred in four television productions in the 1950s and 1960s with both Lunt and Fontanne winning Emmy Awards in 1965 for The Magnificent Yankee,[5] becoming the first married couple to win the award for playing a married couple. Fontanne narrated the classic 1960 television production of Peter Pan starring Mary Martin and received a second Emmy nomination for playing Grand Duchess Marie in the Hallmark Hall of Fame telecast of Anastasia in 1967, two of the few rare productions in which she appeared without her husband. The Lunts also starred in several radio dramas in the 1940s, notably on the Theatre Guild programme . Lynn Fontanne died in 1983, aged 95, from pneumonia, at "Ten Chimneys" in Genesee Depot and was interred next to her husband at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Julian Micevski

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Julian Micevski is a Canadian professional wrestler better known by ring name Ethan Page. is a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name Ethan Page. He is currently signed to Impact Wrestling. He is known for his work in the Canadian independent circuit as well as his work in American promotions including Ring Of Honor and EVOLVE Wrestling, where he is a former one-time Evolve Tag Team Champion. Alpha-1 Wrestling (2010-present) Page's first match for Alpha-1 Wrestling was as early as February 21, 2010, during which he defeated Colin Delaney. During his time in Alpha-1, Page wrestled against names including Kevin Steen, Rhino, Petey Williams, Johnny Gargano, Sonjay Dutt, Shane Douglas, Nunzio and Carlito. By June 29, 2013, Page won his first title in the promotion at A1 Insanity, where he defeated Cheech Hernandez, RJ City and the reigning champion Mike Rollins to win the A1 Alpha Male title. His reign ender on May 11, 2014 at Immortal Kombat 2, where he was defeated by the challenger Alessandro Del Bruno. His next title opportunity was held on November 15, 2015 at Final Act 6, where Page competed in a Four-Way Elimination Match against Scotty O'Shea, Alessandro Del Bruno and Ashley Sixx but did not succeed in becoming the new Alpha Male Champion. On November 27, 2016 at Final Act 7, Page challenged the reigning champion Kobe Durst for the A1 Alpha Male Championship but did not succeed in winning the title. On March 19, 2017 at No Laughing Matter, Page competed in a tournament for the A1 Outer Limits Championship, advancing in the semifinal after eliminating Dominic Garrini. In the finals, he defeated Josh Alexander to become the new A1 Outer Limits Champion. By May 14 at Immortal Kombat V, Page's reign was ended after losing his title defense match against Maxwell Jacob Feinstein. On June 18 at Do Or Do Not There Is No Try, Page teamed with Cody Rhodes to challenge the reigning champions team Virus (Gavin Quinn & Josh Alexander) to become the new A1 Tag Team Champions. This marked Page's first tag team title reign. By November 26, Page held Southside Wrestling Entertainment's World Heavyweight Championship, successfully defending it at Final Act 8, against Josh Alexander. The following month on December 17 at Watch The Throne 5, Page again successfully retained the SWE Heavyweight Championship, defeating Gregory Iron.
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Demore Barnes

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Demore Barnes (born February 26, 1976) is a Canadian film and television actor who is best known for his role in the American television show, The Unit as Hector Williams aka Hammerhead. Originally from Toronto, Barnes began his career with an appearance on the sketch comedy show Squawk Box on YTV. From there he joined the cast of Street Cents. Description above from the Wikipedia article Demore Barnes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Hakim Alston

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Hakim Alston is a kick boxing champion with over 20 years of martial arts experience including Karate and a 4th degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do. His skills brought him to be a member of the USA Karate Team from 1984-1990. His brother Shah Alston is also a great fighter. Under the name Hakim "The Machine," Alston performed on the syndicated television show WMAC Masters, alongside fellow Mortal Kombat alum Ho Sung Pak. He played Fighting Monk in Mortal Kombat and Jax in Mortal Kombat: Live Tour.
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David Saucedo

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David Saucedo is an American actor who came to acting later in life. One of his early roles was with Mexican television royalty, Angelica Vale in the lead role of, "No Me Hallo." The show was originally intended as a web series but after its success online, Univision decided to also air the series on its network. David appeared in two episodes playing the role of Peppino. Later, after a long audition process he was cast in the role of Cesar Arista (in the Christopher Landon directed) Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. This was the second time he had worked with director, writer and producer Oren Peli. Previously, David shot the (as of yet unreleased) Oren Peli directed project "Area 51." Since then, he has played opposite Salma Hayek in How to Make Love to an Englishman and was the gritty drug enforcer, Rosco in 6 Ways to Sundown staring Bai Ling, Tom Sizemore and Dominique Swain. More recently, David spent a month in Seattle, WA, filming alongside Bill Oberst Jr. and Jason Vail in "Valley of the Sasquatch" as Sergio Guerrero. He also worked on Circle and Savageland. With over three million hits on YouTube, in the music video by The Cataracs, "All You," David plays a coyote that smuggles the band into Mexico. Also a music video, On Theory of a Deadman's "Hurricane" staring Andy Dick, he plays a police officer. The song has garnered over a million hits. He is a former funeral counselor and believes that those years spent in the funeral industry help him understand the characters he plays. He has owned a coffee house/art gallery, been a former owner of a small indie record label, was a punk rock musician, is a photographer and an ordained minister. As one of the many odd jobs he has held, he helped clear out the famous old Swabs Pharmacy in Hollywood.
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