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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.
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Geoffrey Giuliano
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Geoffrey Giuliano has been a professional actor from the age of twelve. Earning a Master's degree in Acting/Directing in 1976 Giuliano went on to work extensively in the theatre as well as doing literally hundreds of voice overs and narrations for both syndicated radio and within the international audio book industry. Geoffrey now works almost exclusively as an actor in film and television.
Giuliano is also the author of some thirty internationally bestselling books on the Beatles, John Lennon and other iconic musicians of the 1960's including 'The Beatles / A Celebration',' John Lennon My Brother', 'Dark Horse / The Life & Art Of George Harrison', 'Blackbird / The Life & Times Of Paul McCartney', The Beatles Album / Thirty Years Of Music & Memorabilia', 'The Rolling Stones Album / Thirty Years Of Music & Memorabilia', 'The Lost Beatles Interviews', 'Behind Blue Eye's / The Life Of Pete Townshend', 'The Lost John Lennon Interviews', 'John Lennon & Paul McCartney / Behind The Myth', 'Things We Said Today / Conversations With The Beatles','Glass Onion / The Beatles In Their Own Words',' Lennon In America / Based On The Lost John Lennon Diaries 1971-1980' and 'Revolver / The Secret Life Of The Beatles amongst them. In 2005 his book, 'Paint It Black' / The Murder Of Brian Jones' was made into a feature film by Stephen Wooly entitled, 'Stoned / The Wild & Wicked World Of Brian Jones.'
Geoffrey is also a veteran journalist writing for literally dozens of the high profile newspapers and magazines including The Sunday People, The Daily Mail, The News Of The World, The Mail On Sunday, Playgirl and Rolling Stone.
In late 2008 Geoffrey Giuliano founded Icon Books and G2 Media Arts to market his extensive backlist of newly updated books as well as publish new literary and audio works. He is the father of his business partner, Avalon Giuliano. Finally, he is a noted graphic designer, singer songwriter and visual artist. Today he makes his home in Bangkok and is the father of a young son, Eden Garret Giuliano born in 2007. Geoffrey is also a longtime advocate of ethical vegetarianism, animal rights, a student of Vedic philosophy and a vocal advocate of personal freedom and consciousness exploration.
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Vietnam Veedu Sundaram
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Sundaram came into film industry in 60s, but before that he had his baptism as a writer in stage plays. His first venture was the best venture that sky rocketed him to popularity. He wrote “Vietnam Veedu” play for Sivaji Ganesan for his Sivaji Nataka Mandram, in which the great actor acted the role of Prestige Padmanabha Iyer. He has directed more than dozen films and is well known for his family themes. His stories have been made into films in other languages also. He has now turned actor on the small screen, and has to his credit quite a few television serials.
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Paul Daneman
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Paul Daneman (29 October 1925 - 28 April 2001) was an English film, television, theatre and voice actor.
Paul Frederick Daneman was born in Islington, London. He attended the Haberdashers' Aske's School and Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow and studied stage design at Reading University where he joined the dramatic society. After training at RADA he joined Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep and the Old Vic for four years. In August 1955 he created the role of Vladimir in Waiting For Godot, at the Arts Theatre in Westminster.
His film credits include: Zulu and Oh! What a Lovely War. Daneman's TV credits include: The Adventures of Robin Hood, Persuasion (1960 series), Danger Man, Out of the Unknown, The Saint, Spy Trap, Blake's 7, The Professionals and Rumpole of the Bailey. The BBC's 1960 landmark production "||An Age of Kings]]," a fifteen part drama that combined Shakespeare's histories of the Kings of England and presented them in chronological order, featured Daneman as Richard III.
Daneman played the husband of Wendy Craig in the original series of the popular BBC sitcom Not in Front of the Children before being replaced by Ronald Hines. He also played Bilbo Baggins in the 1968 BBC Radio dramatisation of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.
While recovering from a heart attack, he wrote the sitcom Affairs of the Heart. In 1995 Daneman published If I Only Had Wings, a novel inspired by his experiences in the Royal Air Force during World War II.
Daneman died in 2001 and was buried at East Sheen Cemetery, South West London.
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Lilita Ozoliņa
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Lilita Ozoliņa (born 19 November 1947 in Riga) is an actress of Latvian theater and cinema.
Before the war, Lilita's mother, Albertina, worked as a director's assistant at a German film studio, and father Arvids was a pilot-pilot. Lilita, having passed the admission competition, successfully entered the Riga Film Studio folk cinema actor studio. In parallel with her studies in 1966, she began working at the Latvian Academy of Arts Daile Theater of the Latvian SSR. In 1969, Lilita graduated from cinema actor studies, and in 1971, faculty of actors at the Latvian Academy of Music, Jāzeps Vītols.
Received Lilita Berzina Award (2008). "The Night of the Night" as the best actress of the year for the role of Alice in the production of A. Strindberg's play "Dance of Death" at M. Chekhov's Riga Russian Theater (1996). as an annual actress in the role of the second.
Lilita Ozoliņa has a daughter Liliāna Ozoliņa, who has been the director of the television channel MTV Latvia.
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Loleh Bellon
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Marie Laure Viole Bellon, generally known as Loleh Bellon, (1925–1999) was a French stage and film actress as well as a playwright. In 1949, for her role in Robert Desnos' La Place de l'Étoile, she was awarded the Prix des Jeunes comédiens. She is remembered for her performances in Giraudoux' Judith and in Claudel's L'Annonce faite à Marie. Bellon was also a successful playwright, especially with Dames du jeudi (1976), Une absence (1988) and La Chambre d'amis (1995). For her play L'Éloignement (1987), she was awarded the Molière prize.
Born on 14 May 1925 in Bayonne, Marie Laure Viole Bellon was the daughter of Jacques Bellon, a magistrate, and Denise Simone Hulmann, a well-known photographer. In 1947, she married the Spanish writer Jorge Semprún Maura (1923–2011), with whom she gave birth to Jaime Semprún (1947–2010), also a writer. Following a divorce in 1960, she married the poet Claude Roy (1915–1997) in 1962. Loleh Bellon was the younger sister of the film director and screenwriter Yannick Bellon.
Bellon studied for the theatre under the Russian-born actress and drama teacher Tania Balachova, the actor and theatre manager Charles Dullin, and the actor Julien Bertheau. After making her stage début in 1945 in J. B. Priestley's Dangerous Corner, in 1947, she played in L'An Mil by Jules Romains. In 1949, for her performance in La Place de l'Étoile, she was awarded the Prix des Jeunes comédiens.
She embarked on her cinema career in the late 1940s, working with Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar. Her first major success was the role of Marie in Le Point du jour (1949) directed by Louis Daquin. She appeared in two more of Daquin's films, The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1949) and Maître après Dieu (1950). Thanks to her sister Yannick Bellon, in the 1970s she starred in Quelque part quelqu’un (1972) and Jamais plus toujours (1976).[3]
As a playwright, in 1976 her Les Dames du Jeudi was awarded the Ibsen prize. Other successes included L'èloignement (1987), Une absence (1988) and La Chambre d'amis (1995).
Loleh Bellon died on 22 May 1999 in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre in the Paris suburbs.
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Terri Runnels
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Terri Lynne Boatright is an American retired professional wrestling manager, television host, and occasional professional wrestler. Runnels began her professional wrestling career in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Miss Alexandra York, manager of The York Foundation. She later joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), or later turn into World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where she worked for eight years.
In the early years of her career with the WWF, she managed her (then) real-life husband Dustin Runnels (known on-screen as Goldust) and was a member of the Pretty Mean Sisters alliance. She also managed both The Hardy Boyz and Edge and Christian following the Terri Invitational Tournament in 1999. Subsequently, she had an on-screen rivalry with The Kat, managed The Radicalz stable, and worked as a host and interviewer. During her time with the WWF/E, she briefly held the Hardcore Championship, her only championship during her career. After leaving the wrestling business, Runnels became involved in philanthropic work. Boatright grew up in Florida. She grew up as a Southern Baptist, but later became non-denominational.
She dated Brian Pillman in 1990 while they were both in WCW. In 1993, she married Dustin Runnels, whom she met while they were both working for WCW, taking his last name as her own.[3][4] They have a daughter, Dakota, who was born in 1994.Dustin Runnels' strained relationship with his father Dusty Rhodes caused problems in their marriage, and Terri alleges that Dusty spread rumors about her that included infidelity and gold-digging. The couple divorced in 1999 after six years of marriage. Years after the divorce, they were able to have a "better relationship".
In 2003, she began a relationship with Tyree Clowe, a United States of America vet 15 years her junior. The couple remained together for over five years.
Terri began dating former professional wrestler New Jack in 2009. Jack professed his love for her in an interview with host Fat Man After Dark on the Future Endeavors wrestling radio show and described some of the pitfalls, even today, of a mixed-race relationship. As of July 2011, the couple is no longer together.
In August 2011, a Florida judge ordered Jack to stop selling nude and bloody photographs of Runnels. Runnels filed suit, accusing Jack of making libelous comments about her and requested that a court ban him from distributing sexually-explicit photographs of her. Jack said that he took the photos, that they belonged to him and that he should be free to pass them on to whoever he pleases. A judge in Sanford, Florida, temporarily banned Jack from distributing photographs of Runnels ahead of a hearing.
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Rebecca Ferratti
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Rebecca Ferratti was born in the "Big Sky Country," Montana. She is an active sports enthusiast and has been involved in many professional sports, including the arena of competitive martial arts, and has developed her talents as a weapons, sparring and forms champion. She attributes her positive attitude to setting high goals and achieving success.
She is well traveled, both domestically and internationally, and is a contributing writer to magazines concentrating on travel training, health and beauty tips and overall workouts for all levels from beginners to advanced training. She firmly believes that health and fitness helps one attain a positive drive in life with limitless opportunities for accomplishments.
Rebecca has worked with some of the top fashion photographers in the world: Alberto Tolot, Harry Langdon, Helmut Newton, John Zimmerman and Ken Marcus. She has completed advertising campaigns for Budweiser, Miller Light, Coors, Michelob, Strohs, Harley-Davidson, Snap-On Tools, Coppertone and several cosmetic lines.
She has held many beauty pageant titles and has graced the pages of "Mademoiselle," "Model," "Shape," "Muscle and Fitness," "Swimwear Illustrated," "Swimwear International," "Los Angeles," "Natural Body and Fitness," "Power," "Femme Fatales," "Playboy," "Playboy Bathing Beauties," "Paris Match," "Life," and many international publications.
Rebecca is a drama student and has studied situation comedy with the late Bill Hudnut at the famous Improv Comedy Club. She is an accomplished spokesperson, having hosted many shows starting with Star Search (1983), has made numerous television appearances and was a national and international radio guest D.J., which she hopes to host a talk show live for radio and television.
She is an accomplished dancer and has been in over 25 music videos, including ones for The Gap Band, Mötley Crüe, The Beach Boys, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, David Lee Roth, Winger and appeared in Eddie Murphy's debut music video and his Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) video.
She is also very much involved in a host of charitable endeavors, including The Amanda Foundation, Leukemia Foundation, Stuntmen's Charity Fund, Los Angeles Police Department Fund, Muscular Dystrophy, Heal the Bay, Penny Lane Foundation, Children of the Night, City of Hope, USO, Rainforest Association, American Indian Funding, and has long been a champion for animals, rescuing and placing many sick and abandoned animals every year.
Rebecca is of Italian, Panamanian, French, English and Swiss descent.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Austin Hughes
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Shuri Nakamura
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Nakamura Shuri is a Japanese actress and an idol. She belongs to Ota Production.
In 2016, when she was in the first year of junior high school, she was enrolled as a scholarship student at Watanabe Entertainment's training center. One year later, she started studying to be an actress as a 6th generation member of "Actress Incubation (AI)," sponsored by Drama Design.
She made her acting debut at the age of 14 in the play "Kiyorakana Mizu no Yo ni ~ Watashitachi no 1945 ~" in July 2017. In December of the same year, she debuted as an idol in the idol unit "Love Cocchi."
In September of 2018, she made her first movie appearance in the movie "Kakuga, Mama" and won the Best Actress Award for it at the movie festival "MOOSIC LAB 2018".
Nakamura Shuri is a former 1st Generation member of Last Idol and its unit, Love Cocchi. She graduated from the groups on December 29, 2020.
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Scott Simpson
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Nelson Scott Simpson is a retired American professional wrestler. Throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, he wrestled as "The Russian Nightmare" Nikita Koloff, which was a play on the nickname of fan favorite "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes (in fact, it was Rhodes who gave him the nickname). Nikita was brought into the National Wrestling Alliance by his "Uncle" Ivan to prove Soviet superiority. Their ultimate goal was to dethrone NWA World champion Ric Flair. A physical marvel, Koloff was also hailed as the Russian Road Warrior. He was billed from Moscow in the Soviet Union, and then from Lithuania after the fall of the Soviet Union.
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