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Edith Margarita Massola Mederos

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Edith Margarita Massola Mederos nació el 7 de septiembre de 1967. Es de Centro Habana. Ha tenido una amplia carrera artística que comenzó un 7 de septiembre a la edad de 14 años cuando ingresó en estudios de danza. Debutó en “Una novia para David” con el personaje de Olga, para después consolidar su carrera en los predios del teatro musical y la televisión. Su versatilidad puede constatarse en series dramatizadas como “El año que viene” o “Al compás del son” y películas de reciente producción, entre ellas “Nada” y “La noche de los inocentes”. Conduce desde 1998 el popular programa 23 y M de la Televisión Cubana, durante varios años bajo la dirección de Julio César Leal. Actualmente ella es la Directora del programa.  Massola es una de las artistas cubanas más carismáticas en la actualidad. Tiene el don de desdoblarse magistralmente para realizar cualquier caracterización o actividad. Prueba de todo ello ha sido su debut en el cine con el papel de Olga en el filme Una novia para David, además de las interpretaciones en las películas “Nada” de Juan Carlos Cremata en el 2001 y “La noche de los inocentes”.  Ha trabajado en novelas cubanas y series dramatizadas como “El año que viene” donde popularizó la frase “Dime algo, Fernández”, “ Al compás del son”, Maritere en “Salir de noche”. En teatro en obras como “Las viejas putas” de Juan Carlos Cremata, en personajes humorísticos como Maritrini, personaje del programa musical “Sabadazo”, la simpática secretaria de Albertico Pujols en “Su respuesta, Doctor”, en un teleplay con Rigoberto Ferrera, entre otros.
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Cathy Berberian

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Catherine Anahid Berberian (July 4, 1925 – March 6, 1983) was an American mezzo-soprano and composer based in Italy. She worked closely with many contemporary avant-garde music composers, including Luciano Berio, Bruno Maderna, John Cage, Henri Pousseur, Sylvano Bussotti, Darius Milhaud, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, and Igor Stravinsky. She also interpreted works by Claudio Monteverdi, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Kurt Weill, Philipp zu Eulenburg and others. As a recital curator, she presented several vocal genres in a classical context, including arrangements of songs by The Beatles by Louis Andriessen as well as folk songs from several countries and cultures. As a composer, she wrote Stripsody (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds (onomatopoeia), and Morsicat(h)y (1969), a composition for the keyboard (with the right hand only) based on Morse code. Cathy Berberian was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts to Armenian parents, Yervant and Louise Berberian. The elder of two children, she spent the first 12 years of her life in Attleboro, then the family moved to New York City in 1937 where she graduated from Manhattan's Julia Richman High School for Girls. From an early age, she showed an interest in Armenian folk music and dance as well as traditional opera. While still in high school, she was the director and soloist of the Armenian Folk Group in New York City. For a time, she was an undergraduate at New York University, but left to take evening classes in theatre and music at Columbia University, working during the day to support her studies. She went on to study music in Paris with Marya Freund in 1948, and in 1949 she went to Milan to study singing at the Milan Conservatory with Giorgina del Vigo. In 1950, she received a Fulbright scholarship to continue her studies there. Although she had appeared in several student productions, radio broadcasts and informal concerts during the early 1950s, she made her formal debut in 1957 at Incontri Musicali, a contemporary music festival in Naples. The following year her performance of John Cage's Aria with Fontana Mix in its world premiere, established her as a major exponent of contemporary vocal music. Her American debut came in 1960 at the Tanglewood Music Festival where she premiered Circles by the Italian composer Luciano Berio. From 1950 to 1964 Berberian was married to Luciano Berio, whom she met when they were students at the Milan Conservatory. They had one daughter, Cristina Berio, born in 1953. Berberian became Berio's muse and collaborator both during and after their marriage. He wrote, for her, Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958), Circles (1960), Visage (1961), Folk Songs (1964–73), Sequenza III (1965), and Recital I (for Cathy) (1972). ... Source: Article "Cathy Berberian" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Mookda Narinrak

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Mookda Narinrak, nicknamed Mook, is a Thai model, dancer actress born and raised in Ranong, Thailand. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Communication Arts from the University of Thai Chamber of Commerce. She began in the entertainment industry when she competed in Miss Teen Thailand in 2011 and won. Also, Mookda was a dancer and won the 'TO BE NUMBER ONE IDOL' 2012 Contest (Dance Team). In 2016, Mookda signed a contract with Channel 7 to be one of its actresses. Her very first debut was the remake of the lakorn "Kamin Kub Poon". In 2020, the Instagram star signed a contract with Channel 7 for five years more.
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John Fogerty

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John Fogerty is an American musician, best known as the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principle songwriter of the band Creedence Clearwater Revival, which was officially formed in 1967, though the band members had played together under different names since 1959. Following CCRs dissolution in 1972, Fogerty went on to a successful solo career, releasing several solo albums and touring, playing both solo and CCR hits. Fogerty also occasionally appeared in small roles - usually as himself - in movies and TV shows. Creedence Clearwater Revival was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993.
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Jean Yonnel

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Jean Yonnel (21 July 1891 – 17 August 1968) was a Romanian-born French actor. Yonnel was born in Bucharest, Romania as Jean-Estève Schachmann and began his film career in France in the 1910s. Some of his notable performance were in Obsession (1933), Amok (1934), Fanatisme (1934), White Nights of St. Petersburg (1937), The Imperial Tragedy (1939) and A Funny Parishioner (1963). Yonnel died in Paris in 1968. Source: Article "Jean Yonnel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Suvanant Kongying

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Kob Suvanant Kongying is a Thai actress. Kob grew up with her two close co-stars; Sornram Theappitak and Kunchai Kumnerdploy. The three of them went to the same country school and grew up together and now are acting together. She was the lead actress in many Thai lakorns in the 1990s-2000s. Her first performance in a traditional Thai folklore drama won her widespread popularity and her first major acting award, to which she has since added many. She has been voted people's choice winner for top actress for many years. She was considered Thailand's most famous actress and her koo kwan (leading lakorn partner) was Sornram Theappitak. Suwanan is also known for co-hosting the famous show "Jun pun dao" with Natthawut Skidjai. She's now married to actor-turned-politician Danuporn Punnakan, also known by his nickname Brook, who had been her acting partner in 5 lakorns. They have two children, a boy (Punnadol "Nadol" Punnakan) and a girl (Punnada "Nada" Punnakan)
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Ken Watanabe

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Ken Watanabe (born October 21, 1959) is a Japanese stage, film, and television actor. To English-speaking audiences he is known for playing tragic hero characters, such as General Tadamichi Kuribayashi in Letters from Iwo Jima and Lord Katsumoto Moritsugu in The Last Samurai, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Among other awards, he has won the Japan Academy Prize for Best Actor twice, in 2007 for Memories of Tomorrow and in 2010 for Shizumanu Taiyō. He is also known for his roles in director Christopher Nolan's Hollywood blockbusters Batman Begins and Inception.
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Rikard Wolff

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Rikard Wolff (born 8 April 1958 in Farsta outside Stockholm) is a Swedish stage and screen actor and singer. He voiced Scar in the Swedish dub of The Lion King. He starred in the movie Änglagård, and its sequel, among other films. He has also done various plays, such as Midsommarnatts Dröm (Swedish A Midsummer Night's Dream), and solo acts like Chanson Suicide and music tours. Albums include Pojken på månen and Du får mig (om jag får dig), among others. He now has one daughter with producer/journalist and sister of Jonas Gardell, Stina Gardell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rikard Wolff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Nanami Yanagawa

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梁川奈々美 (Yanagawa Nanami) is a former Japanese idol as a member of Juice=Juice and Country Girls under Hello! Project. She initially joined Hello! Project as an Hello Pro Kenshuusei on April 1, 2015 and was formally introduced on May 4, 2015. She was introduced as a Country Girls member on November 5, 2015 alongside Funaki Musubu. She joined Juice=Juice as a new member on June 26, 2017 after Country Girls ceased regular activities. She graduated from Hello! Project and retired from entertainment on March 11, 2019 to focus on entering university.
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