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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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Jacky Nercessian

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Jacky Nercessian is an actor. Après des études de théologie pour devenir pasteur en Angleterre - bien qu'aucun de ses parents ne soit protestant - et un passage dans la mode à Saint-Étienne, il se retrouve par hasard à jouer l'imposteur dans Pirates sur TF1. Claude Miller le remarque et lui propose un rôle dans La petite voleuse. Il se partage alors entre cinéma et télévision et participe notamment dans les années 1990 à Tout le monde il est gentil de Jean Yanne, Double Jeu et Le Bar de la Plage de Thierry Ardisson. Dans les années 1990 il a aussi animé Le Narcisso Show, une rubrique de l'émission érotique Venus TV qui passait sur M6. À chaque émission, une fille effectuait un striptease intégral sur le plateau télé. Il présentait l’émission sous le pseudonyme de Jean-Patrick Narcisso. Il joue Apkar l'Arménien dans Mayrig d'Henri Verneuil mais aussi Mustapha, le Turc dans Le Grand Voyage d'Ismaël Ferroukhi(Lion d'or du meilleur premier film Mostra de Venise 2004). Sa rencontre avec Josiane Balasko les fait se retrouver pendant une saison sur la scène du théâtre de la Renaissance puis en tournée dans Dernier rappel. En 2009, il joue dans Tout le monde aime Juliette au Splendid écrite et mise en scène par Josiane Balasko aux côtés de Marilou Berry, David Rousseau et Lannick Gautry. Il est en 2010 sur les écrans aux côtés de Louise Bourgoin dans Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec de Luc Besson, film dans lequel il interprète le personnage du professeur Espérandieu. En septembre 2012 il interprète Ernst Feder dans Les derniers jours de Stefan Zweig de Laurent Seksik mis en scène par Gérard Gélas aux côtés d'Elsa Zylberstein, Patrick Timsit et Bernadette Rollin au Théâtre Antoine.
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Brian Tochi

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Brian Tochi (born Brian Keith Tochihara; May 2, 1963) is an American actor. During the late 1960s through much of the 1970s, he was one of the most widely seen East Asian child actors working in U.S. television, appearing in various TV series and nearly a hundred advertisements. He is best known for his characters Toshiro Takashi from the Revenge of the Nerds film franchise, Cadet (later Lieutenant) Tomoko Nogata from the third and fourth films in the Police Academy film series, and as the voice of Leonardo in the first three live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies. He is also known as Brian Keith Tochi. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian Tochi licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Parm Soor

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Born in India and raised in London, Parm moved to Canada where he studied Theatre at the University of Winnipeg. After completing his actor apprenticeship in Canada, Parm worked on the stage and as a stand up comedian across North America for ten years before being offered his first feature film role in 2002. He then landed a recurring role as Detective Nadeem Parmir in two outstanding CBC crime dramas, DaVINCI'S INQUEST and DaVINCI'S CITY HALL. His extensive film and television credits include the Emmy Award nominated miniseries TRAFFIC, the Genie Award nominated film PARTITION, the Gemini Award winning miniseries HUMAN CARGO, the Writers Guild nominated feature film AFGHAN LUKE, and big budget Hollywood blockbusters including WATCHMEN and 2012. Parm travelled to Valencia,Spain to shoot the DISNEY feature film TOMORROWLAND starring George Clooney. His next film appearance will be in the highly anticipated third and final installment of The Maze Runner Trilogy. MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE.
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Leif Erickson

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leif Erickson (born William Wycliffe Anderson) was an American stage, film, and television actor. Erickson was born in Alameda, California, near San Francisco. He worked as a soloist in a band as vocalist and trombone player, performed in Max Reinhardt's productions, and then gained a small amount of stage experience in a comedy vaudeville act. Initially billed by Paramount Pictures as Glenn Erickson, he began his screen career as a leading man in Westerns. Erickson enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II. Rising to the rank of Chief Petty Officer in the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit, he served as a military photographer, shooting film in combat zones, and as an instructor. He was shot down twice in the Pacific as well as receiving two Purple Hearts. Erickson was in the unit that filmed and photographed the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. Over four years service, he shot more than 200,000 feet of film for the Navy. Erickson's first films were two 1933 band films with Betty Grable before starting a string of Buster Crabbe Western films based on Zane Grey novels. He would go on to appears in films such as The Snake Pit, Sorry, Wrong Number, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd, Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront, A Gathering of Eagles, Roustabout, The Carpetbaggers and Mirage. One of his more notable roles was as Deborah Kerr's macho husband in the stage and film versions of Tea and Sympathy. He appeared with Greta Garbo, as her brother in Conquest (1937). He played the role of Pete, the vindictive boat engineer, in the 1951 remake of the famed musical Show Boat. His final appearance in a feature film was in Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977). Erickson appeared frequently on television; he was cast as Dr. Hillyer in "Consider Her Ways" (1964) and as Paul White in "The Monkey's Paw—A Retelling" (1965) on CBS's The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. However, he is probably best known for The High Chaparral, which aired on NBC from 1967 until 1971. He portrayed a rancher, Big John Cannon, determined to establish a cattle empire in the Arizona Territory while keeping peace with the Apache. Erickson guest-starred in several television series, including Rawhide, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Marcus Welby, M.D., Medical Center, Cannon, The Rifleman, The Rockford Files, and the 1977 series Hunter. His final role was in an episode of Fantasy Island in 1984. Erickson was married to actress Frances Farmer from 1936 until 1942. The same day that his divorce from Farmer was finalized, June 12, 1942, he married actress Margaret Hayes. They divorced a month later. He married Ann Diamond in 1945. They had two children, William Leif Erickson (born 1946 - died 1971 in a car accident) and Susan Irene Erickson (born 1950). Erickson died of cancer in Pensacola, Florida, on January 29, 1986, aged 74 CLR
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Alycia Pascual-Peña

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Alycia Pascual-Peña is a New York native and Spanish bilingual who began her entertainment career at the young age of three years old. After performing in SHINE's acting, dancing, modeling, and singing showcases, Alycia instantly became a successful quadruple threat. She began modeling for brands such as Neiman Marcus, JC Penny, Belks, and became the face of Hearts for Hearts Dolls. After much success in the modeling industry, Alycia began commercial work for Telemundo, Univision, and later experienced her television debut in NBC's "Chase" and Gregory Allen Howard's "The Plug". Alycia's passion for the arts is matched by her drive for positivity, as she spends her time being involved in a plethora of community building organizations. Alycia is destined to become one of the nation's top performers.
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Tsunku

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つんく♂ (Tsunku; つんく), real name Terada Mitsuo (寺田光男), is an extremely prolific Japanese record producer, songwriter, and vocalist. He is best known for having two major roles in the Japanese music landscape: first as the lead singer of the popular rock group Sharam Q, and as the producer, primary songwriter, and main studio backing vocalist for idol supergroup Morning Musume., in addition to Matsuura Aya and other associated artists under the Hello! Project banner, for whom he has written and produced a number of chart-topping hits. He has also produced music for other Japanese artists, including Hamasaki Ayumi when she debuted. His musical influences include The Beatles, Queen, and Onyanko Club.
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Paul Spurrier

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Paul Spurrier (born 23 May 1967 Suffolk) is a British former child actor on stage, television, and film, and a screenwriter and film director. He appeared in more than thirty different roles, with credits including Anna Karenina and The Lost Boys for the BBC, Tales of the Unexpected for Anglia Television, and the feature film The Wild Geese as Richard Harris's son Emile. He also appeared in Der schwarze Bumerang [de] – an Australian/German TV-Serial in 4 parts in 1982. Here he played the role of the 15-year-old boy and his adventures in the Australian outback with Aboriginal Australians.
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Taeler Conrad-Mellen

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is an American professional wrestler and valet, who is currently signed to the WWE where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Taeler Hendrix. Starting her career in 2008, she spent her first years working on the independent circuit for promotions including New England Championship Wrestling (NECW), Top Rope Promotions (TRP) and World Women's Wrestling (WWW), before being signed to a contract by Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), a Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) developmental territory, in 2011. In November 2011, Hendrix won the OVW Women's Championship, holding the championship for 203 days. On the June 21, 2012, episode of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's Impact Wrestling television program, Hendrix took part in the Gut Check Challenge in an attempt to get a contract with the promotion, facing Tara in a losing effort. The following week, the storyline Gut Check Challenge judges decided to sign Hendrix to a contract, based on her performance. On July 7, Hendrix won the OVW Women's Championship for a second time, defeating Epiphany but lost it in September. On December 1, at OVW's Saturday Night Special, Taeler defeated Taryn to win the OVW Women's Championship for a third time. Hendrix dropped the Women's Championship to Jessie Belle at OVW's Saturday Night Special on January 5, 2013, despite the interference from her on-screen boyfriend Dylan Bostic.
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Will Smith

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Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor and rapper. Known for variety of roles, Smith has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and four Grammy Awards. Smith began his acting career starring as a fictionalized version of himself on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996). He first gained recognition as part of a hip hop duo with DJ Jazzy Jeff, with whom he released five studio albums and the US Billboard Hot 100 top 20 singles "Parents Just Don't Understand", "A Nightmare on My Street", "Summertime", "Ring My Bell", and "Boom! Shake the Room" from 1984 to 1994. He released the solo albums Big Willie Style (1997), Willennium (1999), Born to Reign (2002), and Lost and Found (2005), which contained the US number-one singles "Gettin' Jiggy wit It" and "Wild Wild West". He has received four Grammy Awards for his rap performances. Smith achieved wider fame as a leading man in films such as the action film Bad Boys (1995), its sequels Bad Boys II (2003) and Bad Boys for Life (2020), and the sci-fi comedies Men in Black (1997), Men in Black II (2002), and Men in Black 3 (2012). After starring in the thrillers Independence Day (1996) and Enemy of the State (1998), he received Academy Award for Best Actor nominations for his portrayal as Muhammad Ali in Ali (2001), and as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006). He then starred in a range of commercially successful films, including I, Robot (2004), Shark Tale (2004), Hitch (2005), I Am Legend (2007), Hancock (2008), Seven Pounds (2008), Suicide Squad (2016) and Aladdin (2019). For his portrayal of Richard Williams in the biographical sports drama King Richard (2021), Smith won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actor. At the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony, shortly before winning, Smith faced public backlash for slapping and shouting at Oscar presenter Chris Rock after Rock made an unscripted joke referencing Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Smith subsequently resigned from the Academy and was banned from attending all Academy functions, including the Oscars, for ten years.
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