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Jacques Higelin
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Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s.
Higelin was born on 18 October 1940. His father, Paul, a railway worker and musician of Alsatian descent, introduced his two sons to various forms of music, while his mother, Renée, of Belgian descent, raised them both.
Higelin's entertainment career began at age 14, when he left school to work as a stunt double. While playing a number of minor roles in motion pictures, Higelin was taught to play the guitar by Henri Crolla, a French-Italian jazz guitarist and a composer of film scores. By the early 1960s, Higelin was attending the René Simon drama school, where he won the François Perier award.
For two years beginning in 1961, Higelin served in the French military in various countries. Upon returning to France, he resumed his film career but increasingly began to focus on music. By the end of the decade, he had become very active in the artistic underground in Paris and began to channel his music towards radical activism.
Higelin began attracting popular attention through his live concerts, typically held in smaller venues, and released his first solo album in 1971. By the middle of the 1970s, Higelin had become one of France's most successful pop musicians, and he remains influential to this day.
In the 70's Higelin was in a relationship with a French-Vietnamese woman called Kuelan Nguyen. She accompanied him during the recording of an album at Château d'Hérouville Studio, where Iggy Pop was also recording his debut solo album "The Idiot". Iggy Pop became infatuated with Nguyen, who rejected him, but the incident inspired the song China Girl, which later became a hit when re-recorded by David Bowie.
Higelin had three children, all of whom became artists: Arthur H, singer, born to Nicole Courtois in 1966; Kên Higelin, actor, born to Kuelan Nguyen in 1972; Izïa, singer, born to dancer Aziza Zakine in 1990. Higelin married Zakine in 2011.
Higelin died on 6 April 2018 in Paris.
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Nora Swinburne
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Nora Swinburne (24 July 1902 - 1 May 2000) was a British actress, born Leonora Mary Johnson in Bath, Somerset, daughter of Henry Swinburne Johnson and his wife Leonora Tamar (née Brain).
She married English character actor Francis Lister in 1924, actor Edward Ashley-Cooper in 1934, and actor Esmond Knight in 1946. Her stepdaughter is the actress Rosalind Knight.
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Azumah Nelson
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Azumah Nelson (born July 19, 1958) affectionately known as The Professor, is a Ghanaian former professional boxer who competed from 1979 to 2008. He was a two-weight world champion, having held the WBC featherweight title from 1984 to 1987 and the WBC super-featherweight title twice between 1988 and 1997. He also challenged once for the unified WBC and IBF lightweight titles in 1990. At regional level he held the ABU, and Commonwealth featherweight titles between 1980 and 1982. Widely considered one of the greatest African boxers of all time, he is currently ranked as the 31st greatest pound for pound boxer of all time by BoxRec.
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Nataša Gollová
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Pro mnohé nejzářivější herečka našeho předválečného filmu se narodila 27. února 1912 v Brně jako Nataša Hodáčová. Její tatínek byl národohospodář František Hodáč. Umělecké jméno si dala podle příjmení svého dědečka - historika Jaroslava Golla. Po gymnáziu studovala Filosofickou fakultu UK v Praze. Měla velký talent na cizí jazyky a byla členkou taneční skupiny. Už jako mladinkou ji lákalo divadlo. Začala herectví studovat soukromě, ale ještě než se na divadelních prknech prosadila, dostala první nabídku od filmu - Kantor ideál (1932), avšak jednalo se zatím o méně než epizodní roličku. Následovalo pár dalších nevýznamných rolí, ale v roce 1939 přišel zlom. Miroslav Cikán ji obsadil do filmu Příklady táhnou, kde se naplno projevil její komediální talent. Tohoto daru však ještě více využil režisér Martin Frič, který dal Nataše Gollové u filmu vůbec největší příležitosti. Crazy komedií Eva tropí hlouposti vytvořil z Nataši Gollové jednu z nejoblíbenějších českých hereček a idol mladých dívek. Ještě před ztřeštěnou Evou si zahrála usedlou Mařenku v Kristiánovi. S Martinem Fričem pak spolupracovala na filmech Hotel modrá hvězda (1941) a Roztomilý člověk (1941), ve všech čtyřech jí byl partnerem Oldřich Nový. Bohužel to vypadá, že na vážné role neměla štěstí. Za zmínku snad stojí alespoň postava Helenky v Pohádce máje (1940) od Otakara Vávry, kde Ríšu hrál Svatopluk Beneš. Avšak filmy jako Bezdětná (1935), Okouzlená (1942), Bláhový sen (1943) padly v zapomnění, stejně jako ty z doby po válce. Ještě dvakrát se ale ukázala v úspěšných komediích: ve Fričově Císařově pekaři (1951), role umělé (neumělé) bytosti Sirael jí padla jako ulitá. A Drahé tety a já (1974), kde už jako stará nemocná paní skvěle ztvárnila čipernou Fany. Nataša Gollová zemřela 29. října 1988 v Praze a pohřbena je na Vyšehradském hřbitově. Byla to nejen výborná herečka, ale také krásná žena, inteligentní člověk, zkrátka velká osobnost a to nejen filmu.
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Barbara Crampton
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Barbara Crampton (born December 27, 1958) is an American actress. She made her screen debut on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives (1983), and her film debut in 1984's Body Double before starring in the horror comedy Re-Animator (1985). Crampton grew up in Vermont, was raised Catholic, and spent summers while growing up traveling the country with the carnival, as her father was a carny. After taking up acting, Crampton starred in a variety of films including Chopping Mall (1986), From Beyond (1986), Castle Freak (1995), You're Next (2011), We Are Still Here (2015), and Little Sister (2016), becoming a fan favorite Scream Queen.
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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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Rupam Islam
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Rupam Islam (born January 25, 1974) is an Indian singer, songwriter, music composer, writer, and humanist. He is the lead vocalist of the popular Bengali Rock Band Fossils. He gained popularity mainly through his solo albums and his works as a member of Fossils. He has worked as a playback singer, music director, and lyricist in numerous Bengali films and has also lent his voice for Hindi and Telugu films. He has sung for various Bengali television soaps, web series, and advertisements. In 2010, he won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer for his work in the Bengali film Mahanagar@Kolkata. He is a member of the Bangla Sangeet Academy.
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Lee You-mi
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Lee Yoo-mi is a South Korean actress who made her acting debut in 2009. In the following years, her work was limited to minor roles in several film and television series. On September 28, 2020, it was announced that Lee has signed an exclusive contract with Varo Entertainment. In 2021, Lee rose to prominence outside South Korea for her role oin the Netflix series "Squid Game". Following the series' international success, Lee's follower count on Instagram increased from 40,000 to over 6.5 million in a matter of days. Lee Yoo-mi becomes first Korean actress to win ‘Outstanding Guest Actress’ at the Creative Arts Emmys.
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Wu Xiubo
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Wu Xiubo (Chinese: 吴秀波; pinyin: Wú Xiù Bō), (born 5 September 1968), is a Chinese actor, musician and producer. He is perhaps most widely known as Xinjie Liu, the protagonist in the TV series Before the Dawn, for which he received several awards. Other prominent dramas in which he had a starring role include "The Wedding Gown", "Sword & Spy", "To the Oak", "The Brotherhood", "Road May Say", and "Invincible Love". He was one of the highest paid actors on Chinese television until his indefinite hiatus from acting due to an extended extramarital affair scandal in 2018.
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Carloto Cotta
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Carloto Cotta is a Portuguese actor, born in Paris on January 31, 1984. He grew up in Lisbon, and at the age of 15 he started his acting training at the Escola Profissional de Teatro de Cascais. He made his film debut in Miguel Gomes' 31 (2003). Since then, Cotta has been a regular presence in the Portuguese cinema. He got the attention of the critics and audiences with his lead role in the short film Arena (2009), that won the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes. Carloto Cotta got international recognition with his performance in Tabu (2012).
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