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Yvonne Constant

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Yvonne Constant (1930 – 28 February 2023) was a French actress, singer and ballet dancer. Yvonne Constant sang in cabaret in New York, other parts of the U.S. and in Europe. Latterly she appeared at the Metropolitan Room in New York 14 times in 2008 and 2009. Her appearances were well received by cabaret critic, William Wolf. Her shows were presented by Jan Wallman, directed and staged by international choreographer Molly Molloy, and her musical director was Russ Kassoff. In 2007 she sang "Ah Paris" at the City Center revival of Follies. Constant was cast for the Broadway production, La Plume de Ma Tante and won a special Tony. When she did The Gay Life with Barbara Cook, Yvonne got a New York Drama Critics Citation as one of the season's Most Promising Actresses. Johnny Carson had Yvonne on his show 45 times. Richard Rodgers saw her on The Tonight Show and chose her for a leading role in No Strings. Then she was the French au pair in the Broadway Comedy, Come Live with Me. Constant was best remembered for her role in Disney's "Monkeys, Go Home!", starring opposite Maurice Chevalier. In the television mini-series "Sins" she played the chanteuse, Annette, alongside Joan Collins. Yvonne was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Constant died on 28 February 2023, at the age of 92. Source: Article "Yvonne Constant" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Vannessa Nevader

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Vannessa Nevader was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Her passion for acting started at the Universidad Metropolitana in Caracas where she studied theater for a year. Moving to Orlando, Florida she enrolled at the University of Central Florida where she took several courses in film while completing her bachelors degree in Business Marketing. Upon graduating, she moved to Miami and entered The Jorvi Entertainment Group and later The Acting School of South Florida where she honed her talents. Taking several acting workshops with renowned casting director Lori Wyman and actors/professors Sebastian Ligarde, Flor Nunez, and Hector Zavaleta gave her a career boost that lead her to land roles for Telemundo and Venevision Productions in several soap operas and TV series including Dame Chocolate, Valeria, and Desaparecidos. Vannessa has also worked in independent films such as La Mujer De La Noche, Kill Thrill, A Spanish Woman's Guide to Finding a Good Husband, The Scapular (which was an official entry in The Chicago Short Film Brigade), Brake (which won the award for best acting), Crossroads, among others.
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Monica Zetterlund

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Monica Zetterlund, born Eva Monica Nilsson, was a Swedish singer, stage and screen actress. In her late teens she sang with her fathers orchestra and Ib Glindemanns Big Band. She made her first recordings in 1957 and was discovered by Arne Domnérus 1958. Two years later she toured the U.S. with Thad Jones and Zoot Sims. In 1964, Monica Zetterlund recorded the critically acclaimed jazz album "Waltz for Debby" with Bill Evans. She made her film debut in "Gröna Hund" (1962). Her long career also included the song "En gång i Stockholm" ("Winter City"); a jazz ballad with which she represented Sweden in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.
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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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Mayu Iizuka

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Mayu Iizuka (飯塚 麻結, Iizuka Mayu, April 15, 1996) is a Japanese voice actress from Saitama Prefecture, Japan, affiliated with Sun Music Production. She has been active as a voice actress since she was in the first year of high school, and became a member of JTB Entertainment when she was in the second year. She is active not only in anime but also in songs, theatrical performances, radio, Nico Nico Live and magazines. She joined Sun Music Production in January 2017. She is also a member of Dialogue+ (stylized as DIALOGUE+) since 2019, a Japanese idol group which is signed to Pony Canyon.
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Seth Gordon

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Seth Gordon has produced and edited the critically lauded films NEW YORK DOLL and CRY WOLF, which grossed $10m at the US box office, and was the cinematographer on the Oscar-nominated SHUT UP AND SING. Most recently, Seth directed the critically acclaimed THE KING OF KONG: A FISTFUL OF QUARTERS. The film was noted on a host of critics; and publicationsʼ Best of the Year lists. He is currently set to direct HORRIBLE BOSSES starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman and Kevin Spacey. Seth is an honors graduate of Yale University, winner of an Oxford University writing fellowship and alumni of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He has also produced documentaries for PBS, the Gates Foundation and the UN.  
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Maylada Susri

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"Bow" Maylada Susri is an actor, singer, and model from Bangkok signed with Channel 3. She studied mass communication at Ramkhamhaeng University. Starting her modelling career in 2004, Bow first entered the entertainment industry as a member of the girl group "Kiss Me Five" (คิส มี ไฟฟ์) under KamiKaze with which she was signed from 2010 to 2013. The next year, she signed with Channel 7 where she stayed until she signed with Channel 3 in 2020. She is currently dating actor "Alek" Teeradetch Metawarayut.
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Urvashi Rautela

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Urvashi Rautela was born in Kotdwar, a small town in the Pauri Garhwal district of Indian state, Uttarakhand. She is an established Bollywood actor, model and beauty pageant enthusiast having won several crowns and accolades for herself including participating in the 2015 Miss Universe contest. She debuted opposite Sunny Deol in 2013's Singh Saab The Great, but shot to fame in late 2014 when she appeared in Yo Yo Honey Singh's music video Love Dose, which was followed by minor roles in both Bollywood and South Indian films until 2016, when she appeared as the supporting actress and lead actress in Sanam Re and Great Grand Masti respectively. Urvashi Rautela landed her first lead role as the femme fatale, Tasha, in the 2018 erotic thriller Hate Story IV. Outside of her film industry and modelling work, Urvashi runs a foundation along with her family called the 'Urvashi Rautela Foundation' to help empower the needs and rights of underprivileged people in India. She also actively supports PETA India and 'Save the Girl Child Camp'.
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Warner Oland

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Warner Oland (born Johan Verner Ölund, October 3, 1879 – August 6, 1938) was a Swedish-American actor most remembered for playing several Chinese and Chinese-American characters: the Honolulu Police detective, Lieutenant Charlie Chan; Dr. Fu Manchu; and Henry Chang in Shanghai Express. His family emigrated to the United States when he was 13. He pursued a film career that would include time on Broadway and dozens of film appearances, including 16 Charlie Chan films. After several years in theater, including appearances on Broadway as Warner Oland, in 1912 he made his silent film debut in Pilgrim's Progress, a film based on the John Bunyan novel. As a result of his training as a Shakespearean actor and his easy adoption of a sinister look, he was much in demand as a villain and in ethnic roles. Over the next 15 years, he appeared in more than 30 films, including a major role in The Jazz Singer (1927), one of the first talkies produced. Oland's normal appearance fit the Hollywood expectation of caricatured Asianness of the time, despite his having no definitively proven Asian cultural background. Oland portrayed a variety of Asian characters in several movies before being offered the leading role in the 1929 film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu. It was the first onscreen portrayal of the Fu Manchu character in film. Oland continued to appear onscreen as an Asian, probably more often than any other white actor in the history of cinema. In Old San Francisco, Oland played an Asian unsuccessfully impersonating a white man. Oland was the first actor to play a werewolf in a major Hollywood film, biting the protagonist, played by Henry Hull, in Werewolf of London (1935). Once again, Oland's character was Asian. A box office success, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu made Oland a star, and during the next two years he portrayed the evil Dr. Fu Manchu in three more films (although the second one was purely a cameo appearance). Firmly locked into such roles, he was cast as Charlie Chan in the international detective mystery film Charlie Chan Carries On (1931) and then in director Josef von Sternberg's 1932 classic film Shanghai Express opposite Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong. The enormous worldwide box office success of his Charlie Chan film led to more, with Oland starring in 16 Chan films in total. The series, Jill Lepore later wrote, "kept Fox afloat" during the 1930s, while earning Oland $40,000 per movie. Oland took his role seriously, studying the Chinese language and calligraphy.
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Jared Masters

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Jared Lee Masters is an American filmmaker, actor and author. He came on the scene in 2011 with Climb It, Tarzan!, one of the few films in history to feature an all-female cast. He has since written and directed over a dozen feature films, including Slink (2013) and Ballet of Blood (2015). He has also appeared in numerous films and television shows, such as Ugly Betty and Saturday Night Live. Masters was born in Georgia, but his father's stint in the Army kept the family of six moving to various cities across the globe (including Kansas City, Virginia Beach, and Portsmouth, in the US, as well as Germany). Masters was initially homeschooled by his mother before attending public and private schools in Richmond, VA. His interest in filmmaking began at age 14, when he directed and edited skateboarding videos and sold them to schoolmates. At 15, he taught himself classical piano, and later composed music for some of his films. Masters joined the Screen Actors Guild in 2007 and moved to New York City, where he studied acting and landed minor roles in major films and television. While living in New York he directed his first proper short film, 'The Umbrella' and the documentary 'Meet the Freaks at Dreamland'. In 2010, Masters moved to Venice Beach, California, and made his first full-length feature film: Climb It, Tarzan! (2011), followed by 8 Reels of Sewage (2012). Both are period films set in the 1960s. Masters was nominated for two EOTM Awards for his feature film Slink: Best Director in a Horror Film and Best Scream Film. The EOTM Awards show was held at the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, California, on August 4, 2013. Masters won the 2013 EOTM Award for Best Horror Film for Slink. His film Teachers' Day was an Official Selection of the 2014 Shockfest and Mockfest Film Festivals, and was nominated for the Zelig Award, the highest honor from Mockfest. Deadly Punkettes won Festival Favorite at Galactic Film Festival 2014. Ballet of Blood won Audience Choice Award at the 2015 RIP International Horror Film Festival. Some of Masters' filmmaking trademarks include: retro themes, female empowerment, society's underbelly, carnival and circus themes, as well as cinematic homages to 80's slasher films and B movies of the 1960s.
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