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Azealia Banks

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Azealia Amanda Banks (born May 31, 1991) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and actress. Raised in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, she began releasing music through Myspace in 2008 before being signed to XL Recordings at age 18. In 2011, her debut single "212" went viral and entered several international charts. Banks subsequently signed with Interscope and Polydor Records before later separating in July 2013. Banks ultimately became an independent artist and started her own independent record label, Chaos & Glory Recordings, after multiple negative experiences with previous labels. In December 2017, Banks had her film debut in the musical drama Love Beats Rhymes, portraying the lead character.
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Shirley MacLaine

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Shirley MacLaine (born Shirley MacLean Beaty; April 24, 1934) is an American actress, singer, author, activist, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, headstrong, and eccentric women, MacLaine has received numerous accolades throughout her career spanning seven decades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards. Born in Richmond, Virginia, MacLaine made her acting debut as a teenager with minor roles in the Broadway musicals Oklahoma! and The Pajama Game. Following minor appearances as an understudy in various other productions, MacLaine made her film debut with Alfred Hitchcock's black comedy The Trouble with Harry (1955), winning the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress. She rose to prominence with starring roles in Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Some Came Running (1958), Ask Any Girl (1959), The Apartment (1960), The Children's Hour (1961), Two for the Seesaw (1962), Irma la Douce (1963), and Sweet Charity (1969). A six time Academy Award nominee, MacLaine won the Academy Award for Best Actress for the comedy-drama Terms of Endearment (1983). Her other prominent films include The Turning Point (1977), Being There (1979), Madame Sousatzka (1988), Steel Magnolias (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990), The Evening Star (1996), Bewitched (2005), In Her Shoes (2005), Valentine's Day (2010), and The Little Mermaid (2018). MacLaine has been the recipient of many honorary awards. She was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2012, Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 1995, and Kennedy Center Honor in 2013 for her contribution to American culture, through performing arts. In 1998, she was awarded the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Apart from acting, MacLaine has written numerous books regarding the subjects of metaphysics, spirituality, and reincarnation, as well as a best-selling memoir, Out on a Limb (1983). Description above from the Wikipedia article Shirley MacLaine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Matthew Davis

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Matthew Davis (born May 8, 1978) is an American actor best known for his roles as Warner Huntington III in Legally Blonde, Adam Hillman on What About Brian, Josh Reston on Damages, and Alaric Saltzman on The CW fantasy drama The Vampire Diaries from 2009 to 2017 as well as the spin-off series Legacies from 2018 to 2022. He starred on the short-lived CW mystery and horror drama Cult as Jeff Sefton, and had a recurring role on the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Sean Yeager.
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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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Dzhemma Osmolovskaya

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Dzhemma Osmolovskaya is a Soviet and Russian theatre and film actress. She first appeared on the screen in 1957. During the "khrushchev thaw", a melodrama film directed by Vasiliy Levin "The Tale of First Love" was shot based on the novel by Nikolai Atarov, where the aspiring actress played the girl Olya. The picture touched upon the themes of orphanhood and single motherhood, forbidden for those years. Immediately after her first film, Dzhemma Osmolovskaya starred in Sergei Sidelyov's lyrical comedy "The Street is Full of Surprises", where she played the role of Katya, the main character's bride. Her heroines were distinguished by purity of soul and naivety, inner light and genuine touching. Determined to devote herself to dramatic art, she worked for more than 40 years at the Moscow theater RAMT, where she came in 1964 after graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School. There she played about fifty roles in performances of various genres.
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Doug Crane

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Doug Crane was born and raised in Western New York and relocated back to the area in 2007. He has been a professional actor for over 40 years, acting in his first Equity play at the age of 15 at Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo. Doug continued to do regional theater and summer stock while attending Buffalo State College, and was also the house accompanist for two years at the popular singing waiter supper club The Granary Inn in Clarence Center, NY. He did two more plays at Studio Arena (including "Elizabeth the Queen" with Kim Hunter and George Chakiris) and eventually moved to New York City where he studied at the Herbert Berghof Studio and lived for 10 years. While studying, he landed his first television role in the soap opera "As The World Turns" and continued to work as a musical director and pianist, performing with singers in several cabarets (including the legendary Duplex in the Village) and on the road. After moving to San Diego in 1990 he signed with his first agent on the West Coast and began to act in commercials, television series, and movies. Doug had co-starring roles in the TV movies "Crowned and Dangerous" (ABC) and "Bloodhounds" (USA), and in the long-running series "Silk Stalkings" and "Renegade". He was featured in the A&E Movie-of-the-Week "See Arnold Run" and the UPN series pilot "Mystery Girl", and had principal roles in the nightly Telenovela series "Fashion House" and "Wicked Wicked Games" (Fox). Doug appeared in commercials for Dell Computers, Cal-Direct Mortgage, and Legoland, and in corporate videos for clients such as Sprint, Pepsi, Sharp, Pfizer, Circuit City, Union Bank, Hewlett-Packard, and Kodak. As a commercial print model he has been seen in ad campaigns for Buick, Sanyo, Intel, and BMW. Since being back in the Buffalo area Doug has been seen in 11 professional theater productions, primarily at Irish Classical Theater and MusicalFare Theater. He has appeared in 13 commercials, including Gates Vascular Institute, Metro Mattress, First Niagara Bank, Roswell Park, Raymour & Flanigan, Sports Authority, Evans Bank, and Time Warner, and has done print work for Xerox, Lifetime Health, Carestream Health, Harris Communications, and Woodbridge Wines.
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Mylène Demongeot

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Mylène Demongeot (born Marie-Hélène Demongeot; 29 September 1935 – 1 December 2022) was a French film, television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100 credits in French, Italian, English and Japanese speaking productions. Demongeot became a star at age 21 with her portrayal of Abigail Williams in The Crucible (1957) which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles nomination and the best actress prize at the socialist Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Some other notable film roles include Elsa in Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958), alongside Deborah Kerr and David Niven, and as Milady de Winter in Les Trois Mousquetaires (1961). A "veteran of cinema" who started as one of the blond sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, she managed to avoid typecasting by exploring many film genres including thrillers, westerns, comedies, swashbucklers, period films and even pepla, such as Romulus and the Sabines (1961) opposite Roger Moore or Gold for the Caesars (1963). Demongeot also has a cult following based on the Fantomas trilogy, as Hélène Gurn opposite Louis de Funès and Jean Marais: Fantômas (1964), Fantômas Unleashed (1965) and Fantômas Against Scotland Yard (1967). Thirty years later, she starred again in another one of France's most successful comedy trilogies as Madame Pic in Fabien Onteniente's Camping (2006), Camping 2 (2010) and Camping 3 (2016). She was twice nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the César Awards for 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) and French California (2006). In 2007, she was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et de Lettres of the French Republic. In 2017, she was inducted into the Légion d'Honneur by ethologist and neurologist Boris Cyrulnik, with the rank of Chevalier. She remained popular until her passing from peritoneal cancer. At the time of her death, she was starring in Thomas Gilou's film Maison de retraite (2022) alongside Gérard Depardieu, one of the biggest box office hits of 2022 in France. Through an Élysée Palace official tribune, President Emmanuel Macron paid a long tribute to her which included : "we salute the career of a great figure in the French Seventh Art, who knew how to shine in all its genres to move all French people". Demongeot was born in September 1935 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, the daughter and only child of Alfred Jean Demongeot, born Nice, 30 January 1897 (himself the son of Marie Joseph Marcel Demongeot, career soldier, and Clotilde Faussonne di Clavesana, an Italian contessa) and Claudia Troubnikova, born 17 May 1904 in Kharkiv (Ukraine, Russian Empire). Her parents, both actors themselves, had met in Shanghai, China, where her half-brother, Léonid Ivantov, from the first marriage of her mother, was born, in Harbin on 17 December 1923. Like hundreds of other major European figures of stage and screen, she trained at the 'Cours Simon' in Paris where her classmates included Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Berri and Guy Bedos. She was a classically trained pianist and her first ambition was of becoming a professional. ... Source: Article "Mylène Demongeot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Tejashree

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Tejashree born as Sonali Jaikumar Khele is an Indian film actress who has appeared in Kollywood movies. Tejashree is originally a kathak dancer, trained in kathak by her father Master Jaikumar Khele, a disciple of Pandit Gopi Krishna Maharaj. After a few modeling assignments, she broke into the southern film industry. She has danced in many item numbers and has good roles in big banner films. She speaks fluent Tamil, despite being a Maharastrian from Mumbai. She has appeared in many television commercials, such as advertisements for Chennai Silk Saree shop, Kritika Shikekai Shampoo Powder, and K.P.G. Jewellery.
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Billy Joel

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William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and composer. Commonly nicknamed the "Piano Man" after his first major hit and signature song of the same name as well as the similarly named 1973 album, he has led a commercially successful career as a solo artist since the 1970s, having released 12 studio albums from 1971 to 1993 as well as one studio album in 2001. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, as well as the seventh-best-selling recording artist and the fourth-best-selling solo artist in the United States, with over 160 million records sold worldwide. His 1985 compilation album, Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2, is one of the best-selling albums in the United States. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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Matheson Lang

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From Wikipedia Matheson Alexander Lang (May 15, 1879 – April 11, 1948) was a Canadian-born stage and film actor and playwright in the early 20th century. He is best remembered for his performances roles in Great Britain in Shakespeare plays. In 1916, Lang became one of the first major theatre stars to act on film, as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, with his wife as Portia. He went on to appear in over 30 films and was one of Britain's leading movie stars of the 1920s. Among his memorable roles were Guy Fawkes (1923), Matthias in The Wandering Jew (1923) (which also featured his wife as Judith), Henry IV in Henry, King of Navarre (1924), and Henry V in Royal Cavalcade (1935). Lang also wrote the plays Carnival (1919) and The Purple Mask (1920), both of which were produced on Broadway and made into films. Matheson Lang died in Bridgetown, Barbados. He was 68.
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