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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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Norman Beaton

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Norman Beaton was a popular and much loved Guyanese born British actor. He arrived in the UK in 1960 and worked as a calypso singer and musician and a teacher - being the first black teacher employed by the education authority in Liverpool. His heart set on a career in showbusiness, he moved to Bristol and became a presenter on the regional news magazine Points West, before a two week prison sentence curtailed his presenting career. He subsequently found work in London's West End, appearing in The Tempest as Ariel, a role he subsequently cited as the most important in his career. He helped set up the Black Theatre in Brixton in the mid 70s and broke into television with the first black British sitcom, The Fosters in 1976, playing Lenny Henry's father. A star turn in the movie Black Joy followed a year later, as did the principal role in the fledgling black soap Empire Road for the BBC. But it is perhaps his performance as Desmond Ambrose, the crotchety Peckham barber in Channel 4's hit sitcom Desmond's that Beaton will forever be remembered for. The series ran from 1988 until his ill health curtailed the show in 1994. He retired to Georgetown, the place of his birth, but collapsed and died of a heart attack at the airport on arrival, on 13th December 1994. He was 60 years old.
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Eligio Meléndez

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Eligio Meléndez is a Mexican film, theater and television director and actor, born on June 20, 1950, in Mexico City. He studied at the Andrés Soler Acting Institute, with the renowned Luis Gimeno, Carlos Ancira, Miguel Círcega and Soledad Ruíz as teachers. One of the most recognized personalities in theater, the actor has participated in more than 30 works, including The Flower of the Heart, Borges with Music, The Enchanted Mirror, The Old Men, Trufaldino Servant of Two Patrons, Mexican Entremeses, Mexico Pachuco, Soldado Razo, among others. In film, Eligio made his debut in the film Perseguida (1991), and then built an interesting and lucrative career with roles in films such as The Colonel Doesn't Have Anyone Write to Him (1999), In the Country of Nothing Happens (2000), for which that he would receive his first Ariel nomination; Perfume of violets (2001), Amar te duele (2002), Curandero (2005), The last one and we leave (2009), Hidalgo – The untold story (2010), Yerbamala (2014) and Dream in another language (2017) , for which he was nominated, for the second time, for an Ariel award.
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Haku

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Born Tonga 'Uli'uli Fifita on February 10th, 1959, Haku, is a retired professional wrestler born in Nukuʻalofa, the capital city to the Kingdom of Tonga. Haku also goes by the name Meng and is most notable for his wrestling career with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF)† where he would earn the moniker King and his time in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as a member of the Dungeon of Doom stable and one half of a tag team with the Barbarian known as the Faces of Fear. A former champion in both the WWF and WCW, Haku is regarded as one of the toughest wrestlers in the history of the sport. † WWF would be renamed WWE in Spring of 2002.
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Stefan Brogren

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Stefan Brogren (born 21 April 1972) is a Canadian actor, director, and producer who is best known for his mainstay role as Archie "Snake" Simpson in the Degrassi television franchise. First appearing as a student in the second series Degrassi Junior High (1987-89) and continuing into Degrassi High (1989-91), Brogren played the role of Snake throughout every subsequent entry in the franchise, reprising his role in the revival Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001-15) as a teacher and later principal, and again in Degrassi: Next Class (2016-17). Known for his visual style and character driven storytelling, Stefan has directed shows for The CW, Netflix, Hulu, Lifetime and most recently for the streamer, Tubi. Stefan is also an accomplished Producer. He has received 4 Primetime Emmy nominations for his producing work within the Degrassi franchise. Stefan’s directing has been nominated 4 times, with two wins at the Canadian Screen Awards for “Best Direction in a Youth Program or Series”. Including his 2021 nomination for Holly Hobbie. He won a Directors Guild of Canada Award in 2015 for the series Open Heart and received his fourth DGC nomination in 2017 for Degrassi: Next Class.
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Mor Kaplansky

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Mor Kaplansky studierte Kunst und Film an der Universität, während sie in der Herstellungsleitung und Produktionsüberwachung arbeitete. Nach 8 Jahren als Produzentin wollte sie sich wieder ihren Leidenschaften, dem Schreiben und Regieführen zuwenden und begann ein Masterstudium im Fach Film an der Universität Tel Aviv. Während des Studiums realisierte sie den Kurzfilm "Vlog" (2010), der auf vielen internationalen Festivals gezeigt wurde, u.a. beim BFI London Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival und dem São Paulo Short Film Festival. Danach begann Mor damit, ihren ersten abendfüllenden Dokumentarfilm "Café Nagler" zu entwickeln. Quelle: 66. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Katalog)
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Alaa Al Dayeh

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Alaa Al Dayeh, born in 1997 in Jerusalem, holds a BA in film production and cinematography from Dar Al Kalima university. She has a number of films, some of them are experimental, like Exit, which won Best Experimental Film in Bethlehem Student Film Festival. She has made one work of video art, “Retrieving Time”, one feature film, Majdouline, and a documentary in post-production, Nisrine. She is passionate about working in an experimental style. She is currently working as a photographer as well as an assistant director. She shoots her own documentary movies. She has worked as an assistant director in multiple movies, most recent of which are A Home in Jerusalem, by Palestinian director Muayad Alayan and Six Days are not Enough.
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Yves Gourvil

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Cours de Tania Balachova de 1971 à 1973. Enseignant au Théâtre-école du Miroir dirigé par D. Mesguich. Dans le cadre de ses activités de comédien interventions – ateliers de pratique théâtrale, cours théoriques - en milieu scolaire et universitaire. Séminaires d’expression théâtrale à l’Ecole Supérieure de Commerce d’Amiens. Animation de stages au Conservatoire National de Région de Bordeaux. Sessions d’expression scénique et théâtrale auprès de chorales d’amateurs : Le chœur La Fontenelle de Paris, l’Ensemble Cantaréunion de Saint-Denis de la Réunion. Animation de stage au Théâtre des 2 rives de Rouen.
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Chuck Cooper

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Won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor for his portrayal of Memphis in The Life. His other Broadway credits include: Chicago, Passion, Someone to Watch Over Me, Rumors, Amen Corner, Getting Away With Murder, and Badfoot in St. Louis Woman, in City Centers acclaimed Encore series. National tours: The Tap Dance Kid, Eubie and Whistle Down the Wind. Off-Broadway: Thunder Knocking On The door, Marco Polo Sings a Solo, Jawbone, Avenue X, Police Boys and Colored People's Time. Regional Theatre: Paul Robeson in Paul Robeson at the Passage Theatre, Thunder Knocking On The Door at Trinity Repertory, The Doctor is Out, Othello in Othello at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Brutus in Julius Caesar at the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Tullus Aufidius in Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre and Caliban in The Tempest at the Alliance Theatre Company. Television credits include Law & Order, Oz, Strangers with Candy, NYPD Blue, Cosby, The Cosby Mysteries, New York Undercover, I'll Fly Away, The Bold and the Beautiful and as Charlie the Bridge Man in the A&E series 100 Centre Street. His most recent film credits are _3 Days of Rain (2000)_, Our Song (2000), Gloria (1999), The Peacemaker (1997), The Juror (1996) and The Hurricane (1999).
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Jacob Streilein

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Jacob Streilein is an art director and artist. He was born on October 4, 1992, in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Streilein lived in Durham, North Carolina, where both his parents work at Duke University, up until 2010 when he moved to Valencia, California to study Character Animation at the California Institute of the Arts. In 2014, he moved to Santa Monica to work as a director on an educational cartoon called Ask the Storybots, at Jib Jab Bros. Studios. He worked on Amphibia as art director for season 2.
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