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Cheng Pei-pei

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Cheng Pei-pei is an actress best known for her performance in the seminal 1966 King Hu wuxia film Come Drink with Me. She continued to play expert swordswomen in a number of films throughout the 1960s. In 2000, she returned to international attention with her role as Jade Fox in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. She followed this up with her portrayal of Long Po in the 2004 television miniseries Watery Moon, Hollow Sky, which was shown on Asian-American television as Paradise. She continues to work for Zhouyi Media in mainland China.
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Maggie Smith

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Dame Margaret Natalie Smith CH DBE (born 28 December 1934) is an English actress. She has had an extensive career on stage, film, and television which began in the mid-1950s. Smith has appeared in more than 60 films and over 70 plays, and is one of Britain's most recognisable actresses. She was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990 for contributions to the performing arts, and a Companion of Honour in 2014 for services to drama. Smith began her career on stage as a student, performing at the Oxford Playhouse in 1952, and made her professional debut on Broadway in New Faces of '56. For her work on the London stage, she has won a record six Best Actress Evening Standard Awards: for The Private Ear, and The Public Eye (both 1962), Hedda Gabler (1970), Virginia (1981), The Way of the World (1984), Three Tall Women (1994) and A German Life (2019). She received Tony Award nominations for Private Lives (1975) and Night and Day (1979), before winning the 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage. She appeared in Stratford Shakespeare Festival productions of Antony and Cleopatra (1976) and Macbeth (1978), and West End productions of A Delicate Balance (1997) and The Breath of Life (2002). She received the Society of London Theatre Special Award in 2010. On screen, Smith first drew praise for the crime film Nowhere to Go (1958), for which she received her first nomination for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award. She has won two Academy Awards, winning Best Actress for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) and Best Supporting Actress for California Suite (1978). She is one of only seven actresses to have won in both categories. She has won a record four BAFTA Awards for Best Actress, including for A Private Function (1984) and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1988), a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for Tea with Mussolini (1999), and three Golden Globe Awards. She received four other Oscar nominations that were for Othello (1965), Travels with My Aunt (1972), A Room with a View (1986), and Gosford Park (2001). Smith played Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2011). Her other films include Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (1973), Death on the Nile (1978), Clash of the Titans (1981), Evil Under the Sun (1982), Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993), The Secret Garden (1993), The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012), and The Lady in the Van (2015). She won an Emmy Award in 2003 for My House in Umbria, to become one of the few actresses to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, and starred as Lady Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham, on Downton Abbey (2010–2015), for which she won three Emmys, her first non-ensemble Screen Actors Guild Award, and her third Golden Globe. Her honorary film awards include the BAFTA Special Award in 1993 and the BAFTA Fellowship in 1996. She received the Stratford Shakespeare Festival's Legacy Award in 2012, and the Bodley Medal by the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries in 2016. Description above from the Wikipedia article Maggie Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Chantal Poullain

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Chantal Poullain (* 17 August 1956 Marseille) is a Czech-French theater and film actress. She studied theater at Geneva, then studied in England, starring in several French and Swiss television films. She was married to Bolek Polívka, with whom he has a son Vladimír Polívka. She lived in Brno in the Czech Republic and now lives in Prague. She is the founder and president of the Archa Chantal Foundation. From the eighties, along with Bolek Polívka, appeared on the stage of the Na Provázku Theater in the legendary production Šašek and Queen, with whom they also appeared on a number of foreign scenes. Since 1993, this game has been featured on the stage of Bolek Polívka Theater. She attended Klicper's Theater in Hradec Králové in performances of Romeo and Juliet, Antelope and Master and Markétka. At the Ungelt Theater in Prague, she played at the Games of Marriage, Six Dance Lessons at Six Weeks At Your Risk! and Kurtizana. In January 2017 she joined the production The Naked Truth - Revealed Truth, which originated in the co-production of Bolek Polívka Theater and StageArtCz. In the years 2010-2013 she performed concerts in the Czech Republic with a chanson project accompanied by a band of saxophonist Štěpán Markovič. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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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Vernetta Lopez

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Vernetta Lopez has been in the entertainment industry for 21 years with her foray into the business via her debut television show, NiteRage, Singapore’s first locally produced music video program. During which she was also a DJ on the hot teen radio station, Perfect 10 98.7FM. Her television acting career took off with Singapore’s First English Sitcom, Under One Roof, starring as the young teenage daughter, where she was nominated 4 times before winning an Asian Television Award for Best Actress in a comedy in the year 2000 and won another for Best Actress in a Drama in 2003 for the Blue Print original, ‘Ceciliation.’ She has hosted prestigious events such as the National Day Parade, SEA Games, and the nation’s New Year Countdown. She is a veteran emcee for events for high-net worth brands such as Standard Chartered bank, Citibank, Rolls-Royce, Dimension Data and Singapore Airlines. She has starred in movies, numerous television series, and has been the face of many brands such as Kelloggs, Burger King, The National Library Board and the team from the Pioneer Generation. She is also a stalwart of radio, having helmed major drive time shows and has been a pilot of the airwave for 20 years, and is currently the solo host of the Evening Drivetime from 5p, to 8pm on GOLD 905. She’s an actress, radio DJ, corporate event emcee, vocal talent, wedding planning entrepreneur, florist (!), puppeteer and author, having penned her autobiography in 2012 titled’ Memoirs of a DJ.’ Throughout the years she’s been a familiar face gracing the landscape of television, radio and the stage, with an enduring sustainability through her love for comedy, laughter, entertainment, music and her fans. And she continues to entertain on radio, television and now, online as well. She still has no plans to slow down and will continue to entertain fans for, as she puts it, ‘as long as there’s air to breathe and a microphone and a camera nearby.’ Vernetta currently co-host the morning drivetime show - ‘Live! with Mike, Vernetta and Gurmit’ with Mike and Gurmit, weekdays, 6am to 10am on GOLD 905.
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Timothy J. Cox

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Richard Propes of The Independent Critic states, "If you know indie actor Timothy J. Cox, then you already know he's a serious actor. Cox has always had a bit of an "ordinary joe" aura going on about him. He's comfortable playing a wide range of characters and he's not beyond going way out of his comfort zone when the script calls for it". In a career that began when he won the lead role in his eighth grade school musical, something that he auditioned for just to get out of Math class, critically acclaimed indie character actor Timothy J. Cox has shown no signs of slowing down.
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Vikranth

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Vikranth is an Indian film actor. He was first introduced in the film Karka Kasadara (2005) directed by R. V. Udayakumar and later appeared in other romantic drama films. His contributions as a cricketer in the Celebrity Cricket League raised Vikranth's profile in the early 2010s and he began to work on more prominent films. He won acclaim for his extended cameo role in Suseenthiran's Pandianadu. Vikranth is the cousin of Popular Tamil Ilayathalapathi Vijay and nephew of S. A. Chandrasekhar.He married Manasa Hemachandran, who is the daughter of actress Kanakadurga, on 21 October 2009 in Chennai. His son was born on 23 July 2010.
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Miloš 'Miša' Radivojević

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Miloš Miša Radivojević is a Serbian television and movie director, and a professor at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Belgrade. Miloš started his higher education as a philosophy student but eventually graduated in 1966 from Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade in 1966, as one of the first students of Aleksandar Saša Petrović with the medium length film Adam & Eva 66. He worked as assistant director under Puriše Đorđević between 1961 to 1969. He directed 16 feature films, beginning with Bube u glavi ("This Crazy World of Ours") which received the Golden Lion medal at the 1970 film festival.  Other prizes include: Silver Mermaid and Roberto Paolela (Naples, 1975) – Testament, Bronze Palm (Valencia, 1989) – ČavkaLokarno, 1979 - Kvar'
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Marcus Jones

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Marcus Jones is an American former mixed martial artist fighter and former college and professional American football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons. He played college football for the University of North Carolina, and was recognized as a consensus All-American. A first-round pick in the 1996 NFL Draft, he played professional football for the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers. After retiring from the NFL, he became a mixed martial arts fighter, and was a cast member of SpikeTV's The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights.
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David Carradine

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David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine Jr.; December 8, 1936 – June 3, 2009) was an American actor best known for playing martial arts roles. He is perhaps best known as the star of the 1970s television series Kung Fu, playing Kwai Chang Caine, a peace-loving Shaolin monk travelling through the American Old West. He also portrayed the title character of both of the Kill Bill films. He appeared in two Martin Scorsese films: Boxcar Bertha and Mean Streets. David Carradine was a member of the Carradine family of actors that began with his father, John Carradine. The elder Carradine's acting career, which included major and minor roles on stage, television, and in cinema, spanned more than four decades. A prolific "B" movie actor, David Carradine appeared in more than 100 feature films in a career spanning more than six decades. He received nominations for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his work on Kung Fu, and received three additional Golden Globe nominations for his performances in the Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory (1976), the television miniseries North and South (1985), and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 2, for which he won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor. Throughout his life, Carradine was arrested and prosecuted for a variety of offenses, which often involved substance abuse. Films that featured Carradine continued to be released after his death. These posthumous credits were from a variety of genres including action, documentaries, drama, horror, martial arts, science fiction, and westerns. In addition to his acting career, Carradine was a director and musician. Moreover, influenced by his Kung Fu role, he studied martial arts. On April 1, 1997, Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article David Carradine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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