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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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Wade Radford

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Wade Radford is a cult B Movie actor & filmmaker best known for his role as the debauched Darrell in cult exploitation franchise 'Boys Behind Bars 1-3', as well as his unsettling performance as 'Kayden Daydream' in the in your face, sexually charged 'Twink'. His other feature film credits include 'Sex Lies & Depravity 1-2' and '1 Last Chance at Paradise'. Wade is one half of a team leading the resurgence of retro B Movie's and has self confessed his love for the style of film making! Not only is Wade apart of the film world but he has released numerous books in the erotica and poetry genre as well as hosting a successful set of Podcasts in which he has to date received more than 50,000 listens too! Radford believes in the freedom of film making and the need for features far removed from the 'Hollywood' genre! His work is most well known but not limited within the LGBT community, due to many of the films powerful gay leads. A lot of his writing and work also holds a place for the oppressed, deprived & the deeper issues of our society. In his personal life Wade has a great interest in Environmental Issues, Politics, and alternative foods.
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Liv Lindeland

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Buxom and shapely blonde bombshell Liv Lindeland was born on December 7, 1945 in Norway. Liv moved to the United States in 1965 and worked for four years as a fashion model in Boston, Massachusetts. Lindeland moved a second time to Los Angeles, California in 1969. She was the Playmate of the Month in the January, 1971 issue of "Playboy" and has the distinction of being the first Playmate to show pubic hair in her pictorial. Liv was named Playmate of the Year in 1972. She studied acting and speech at the Robert Arthur Workshop in Los Angeles. In the wake of her Playmate stint Lindeland went on to act in a handful of movies and eventually became a talent agent. Liv did a follow-up pictorial called "Playmates Forever!" in the December, 1979 issue of "Playboy." She's the daughter in law of actress/dancer Cyd Charisse.
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Sophia Myles

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Sophia Jane Myles is an English actress, best known in film for portraying Erika in Underworld, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward in the live-action Thunderbirds film, Isolde in Tristan and Isolde and Darcy in Transformers: Age of Extinction, and has received critical acclaim for her television work, particularly as Madame de Pompadour in the Doctor Who episode "The Girl in the Fireplace" and Beth Turner in Moonlight. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sophia Myles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jessica Stone

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Jessica Stone is an accomplished theater actress in New York and has been performing in plays on and off Broadway for the last 20 years. Her Broadway credits include "Anything Goes" with Sutton Foster, "Butley" with Nathan Lane, "The Odd Couple" with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, "Smell of the Kill" with Claudia Shear, "Design For Living" with Alan Cumming and Dominic West, "How to Succeed..." with John Stamos and "Grease" with Rosie O'Donnell. Off-Broadway credits: "Crimes of the Heart" directed by Kathleen Turner, "Krisit", "The Country Club", "June Moon", "Tenderloin" and "Babes in Arms". She has performed in Regional Theaters all over the country including the Huntington Theater Company, Mark Taper Forum, GeVa, the McCarter, and six seasons at the Williamstown Theater Festival. Favorite productions include "She Stoops to Conquer", "She Loves Me", "Springtime For Henry", "Betty's Summer Vacation", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Cherry Orchard". Jessica is particularly excited to be the voice of "Mrs. Sparklenose", a new character on Sesame Street (1969), that made her debut in the fall of 2009. Not only has Jessica worked with some of the finest directors working in the theater today including Joe Mantello, Michael Greif, and Nicholas Martin but she has begun a directing career as well. She directed an all-male production of "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" and a revival of Neil Simon's 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers" at the Williamstown Theater Festival, both to critical acclaim.
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Jane Watson

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Jane Watson is a professional stage and film actress, writer and entrepreneur. She started performing in elementary school and has never looked back. Discovering her passion for theatre motivated her to study as much as she could as a young artist; she was one of the first teenagers to attend the Centre in the Square Summer School for the Performing Arts. That experience came full circle when, after completing her undergraduate degree in Theatre at U of T and her Masters from Binghamton University in New York, she was asked to teach and direct at the same school. Since she is a believer in life long education, Jane has continued to take acting courses, most recently completing intensives with Matthew Harrison and the Actor's Foundry based in Vancouver. Jane performs regularly in TV and film; most recently in the blockbuster "Pacific Rim" directed by Guillermo del Toro. Her stage life is varied and active, and she was seen last at the Fergus Grand Theatre in "Murder by Natural Causes", and plans to reappear at this same theatre in "Peter Pan" this fall. Before that, she will appear in "Asphalt Jungle Shorts: The DecaDance" as part of the Impact 2013 Festival. Jane will also be shooting several short films this fall, including "Crystal Aggregate."
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Alan Gelfant

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Gelfant (born May 21, 1957 in Syracuse, New York) is an American film actor. Alan Gelfant has acted in more than 50 plays and dozens of TV shows and movies, including leading roles in the films Next Stop Wonderland, The Destiny of Marty Fine, Men in Scoring Position, Turn of Faith and highly acclaimed documentary Hero. As a director, he has put his interest in new plays. Consequently, he is the co-founder of the annual Stella Adler Theatre - One Act Play Festival in Los Angeles. He was hired by HBO to direct and co-write Colin Quinn’s one man show The Seven acraments. In the Upper Valley area of New Hampshire and Vermont, Gelfant has produced, directed and acted in performances at the Parish Players, playing Eddie Carbone in A View From The Bridge. Besides professional acting and directing for TV, movies and the stage, Alan Gelfant teaches acting, playwriting and filmmaking at high schools. Currently, he is a teacher and tutor in Writing and Rhetoric Program of Cultural Studies at Dartmouth College, focusing on research and study in making documentary films for educational use. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alan Gelfant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Manu Narayan

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Manu Narayan (born August 16, 1973) is an American actor, film producer, singer, songwriter, composer and saxophonist. He served as a Trustee of Carnegie Mellon University, his alma mater, from 2013-2016. Narayan was hailed as a "promising young star...a compelling actor and outstanding singer who can light up a stage with sheer force of personality," by UPI in 2004 when he made his Broadway debut in the Andrew Lloyd Webber, A.R. Rahman musical Bombay Dreams, originating the role of the "hero" Akaash. Narayan co-starred as Rajneesh alongside Mike Myers in the Paramount Pictures' feature film The Love Guru (2008).
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Enzo Staiola

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Enzo Staiola (born 15 November 1939) is an Italian actor best known for playing, at the age of seven, the role of Bruno Ricci, the son of protagonist Antonio Ricci in Vittorio De Sica's neorealist 1948 film Bicycle Thieves. He appeared in several other films (including the American-produced The Barefoot Contessa in 1954, which starred Humphrey Bogart) before becoming a math teacher in adulthood. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Enzo Staiola , licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sten Ljunggren

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Sten Ivar Ljunggren (born October 16, 1938) is a Swedish character actor. He played Henrik in the long-running Swedish drama TV series Svenska hjärtan, which aired between 1987 and 1998. Other notable roles includes criminal inspector Lennart Thorin in the TV mini-series based on the Lasermannen events, the retired doctor Axel Holtman in Skärgårdsdoktorn, the voice of Carl Fredricksen in the Swedish dub of Up, the voice of Sykes in the Swedish cinema dub of Oliver & Company, and the evil principal in Kenny Starfighter. He played the lead role as Birger in Lukas Moodysson's last short film Talk. The same character, with some modifications, was used again in Moodysson's Together. Ljunggren reprised the role.
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