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Gerard Murphy

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Gerard Murphy was a Northern Irish actor of film, television and theatre fame. His most famous film roles included that of The Nord in Kevin Costner's ambitious Waterworld and the corruot Judge Faden in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins. On television, he was famous for playing Richard Maynarde in the 1988 Doctor Who 25th anniversary serial Silver Nemesis and for the role of the airplane pilot in the classic Father Ted episode Flight Into Danger from 1996. He died of prostate cancer at the age of 64 in August 2013.
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Peter Arne

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Born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya, to a Swiss-French mother and an American father, Peter Arne was an actor and an antique dealer who was murdered in 1983. In the late 1940s, Arne and his partner Jack Corke befriended acclaimed novelist Mary Renault and her partner, Julie Mullard, on the SS Cairo, a steamer bound from Britain to South Africa and convinced them to go into business building homes for immigrants to the country. Renault financed using her £25,000 MGM award, employing labourers and craftsmen to begin construction of several houses, but Arne and Corke squandered the money, racking up debts before stealing Renault's car and returning to the UK to avoid charges of embezzlement. On 1st August 1983, Arne attended a costume fitting for a role in Doctor Who. On his return home, neighbours reported sounds of an argument to the police who subsequently found Arne's body inside his Knightsbridge flat. He had been bludgeoned to death with a stool and log from his fireplace. The prime suspect in Arne's murder was Giuseppe Perusi, a schoolteacher from Italy who had been living rough in a local park, and for whom Arne had been providing food. Four days later, a body matching Perusi's description was found in the River Thames at Wandsworth, having drowned in an apparent suicide. At the subsequent inquest in October 1983, Police concluded that Perusi had beaten the actor to death then killed himself.
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Jennifer Finnigan

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Jennifer Christina Finnigan (born August 22, 1979) is a Canadian actress, best known for her role as Bridget Forrester in the American soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful from 2000 to 2004, for which she won three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series. She is also known for her roles as Lidia Bennett on the CBC drama Moonshine (2021), Grace Barrows on the CBS sci-fi drama Salvation (2017–2018), Molly Al Fayeed on the FX series Tyrant (2014–2016), Dr. Tina Ridgeway on the medical drama series Monday Mornings (2013), Maddy Putney on the ABC sitcom Better with You (2010–2011), Annabeth Chase on the CBS legal drama Close to Home (2005–2007), Marni Fliss on Committed (2005), and a recurring role in 2004 as Devan Maguire on Crossing Jordan. She has been married to actor Jonathan Silverman since 2007.
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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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Lauren Lane

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Laura "Lauren" Lane (born February 2, 1961) is an American film, television, stage actress, and professor. She is best known for her role as C.C. Babcock on The Nanny. Since 2000, Lane has performed in various productions at the Zachary Scott Theatre, in Austin, Texas. In 2015, she starred in a one-off performance in A. R. Gurney's Love Letters opposite her The Nanny co-star Daniel Davis with proceeds going to the Texas State BFA Acting Program. In 2013, she briefly taught at Carnegie Mellon University. Lane is on the faculty of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Texas State University in San Marcos.
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Joaquim de Almeida

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Joaquim António Portugal Baptista de Almeida (born 15 March 1957) is a Portuguese actor. He began his acting during the 1980s, appearing on the 1982 action movie The Soldier. He achieved international fame with his portrayals of Félix Cortez in the 1995 Tom Clancy's thriller Clear and Present Danger, drug kingpin Bucho in the 1995 action thriller film Desperado, Ramon Salazar on the Fox thriller drama series 24 and the corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes in 2011 street racing film Fast Five. His other well known films include The Honorary Consul (1983), Good Morning, Babylon (1987), Only You (1994), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Behind Enemy Lines (2001), The Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007), Che: Part Two (2008) and The Burning Plain (2008). He has worked in Europe, Argentina, Mexico, the United States and Brazil in many film and stage productions, winning several international awards.
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Esther Seibt

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Esther was born in Berlin Germany, grew up in Greece and returned with her family later again back to Germany. She started out as a kid. Dancing, singing, hosting. When it got more professional, she decided to make this passion her job. She hosted a kids show, when she was 10 years old. Almost every weekend, she was on stage as a dancer. She started vocal training in the age of 13 and finished her vocal training as an opera singer by the age of 23. She had several bands and projects, composed her own songs and had fun being a DJ for several occasions. When she was 14 she got her first talent agent. From then on she starred and supported more than 30 movies and TV shows up until today. National and international. After a few years of acting only, her passion for music grew stronger and she decided to go deeper into this field. Ever since she had been writing poems, short stories and articles. Now it turned into fully structured pop/rock/folk songs. In 2009, she went to Israel to record two singles, that she later decided not to put on her album, since the style wasn't what she wanted. She toured with a new program, rewrote, rerecorded until she had found the style she wanted to go for, on her first album as a solo singer. Since 2011, she is writing continuously. Spending a lot of time in New York and Los Angeles made her style grow more and more American. Her English is perfect, her writing is inspiring and her thoughts are deep. She cares about the environment and tries to be as active as possible for several projects worldwide. Over the years, she won several national awards as a painter and got attention in the media as an actress and society girl. She wants to be as independent as possible. As free as can be. And as committed as necessary to serve her and other people's tasks best. She never stopped learning. She had recently her acting trained again with f.exp. Margie Haber, Crystal Carson and Christiane Kupfer, just to name a few. To stay focused, she studies business administration and economy psychology in a correspondence course. In 2012 she continues working on her album and tours with a small acoustic concert within Germany.
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Chae Soo-bin

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Chae debuted in 2014 in the film My Dictator. She then featured in weekend drama House of Bluebird (2015) and youth series Cheer Up! (2015) which won her "Best New Actress" awards at both 4th APAN Star Awards and 29th KBS Drama Awards. Chae had a major role in the hit drama Love in the Moonlight (2016) from which she gained an Excellence Award nomination at the 30th KBS Drama Awards. The same year she starred in the play Blackbird and the Chinese-South Korean web-drama My Catman. In 2017, she took on her first prime-time leading role in the historical television series Rebel: Thief Who Stole the People.
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Francisco Rabal

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Francisco Rabal (March 8, 1926 – August 29, 2001), perhaps better known as Paco Rabal, was a Spanish actor born in Águilas, a small town in the province of Murcia, Spain. In 1936, after the Spanish Civil War broke out. Rabal and his family left Murcia and moved to Madrid. Young Francisco had to work as a street salesboy and in a chocolate factory. When he was 13 years old, he left school to work as an electrician at Estudios Chamartín. Rabal got some sporadic jobs as an extra. Dámaso Alonso and other people advised him to try his luck with a career in theater. During the following years, he got some roles in theater companies such as Lope de Vega or María Guerrero. It was there that he met actress Asunción Balaguer; they married and remained together for the rest of Rabal's life. Their daughter, Teresa Rabal, is also an actor. In 1947, Rabal got some regular jobs in theater. He used his full name, Francisco Rabal, as stage name. However, the people who knew him always called him Paco Rabal. (Paco is the familiar form for Francisco.) "Paco Rabal" became his unofficial stage name. During the 1940s, Rabal began acting in movies as an extra, but it was not until 1950 that he was first cast in speaking roles, and played romantic leads and rogues. He starred in three films directed by Luis Buñuel - Nazarín (1959), Viridiana (1961) and Belle de jour (1967). William Friedkin thought of Rabal for the French villain of his 1971 movie The French Connection. However, he could not remember the name of "that Spanish actor". Mistakenly, his staff hired another Spanish actor, Fernando Rey. Friedkin discovered that Rabal did not speak English or French, so he decided to keep Rey. Rabal has previously worked with Rey in Viridiana. Rabal did, however, work with Friedkin in the much less successful but Academy Award-nominated cult classic Sorcerer (1977), a remake of The Wages of Fear (1953). Throughout his career, Rabal worked in France, Italy and Mexico with directors such as Gillo Pontecorvo, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luchino Visconti, Valerio Zurlini, Jacques Rivette and Alberto Lattuada. It is widely considered that Rabal's best performances came after Francisco Franco's death on 1975. In the 1980s, Rabal starred in Los santos inocentes, winning the Award as Best Actor in Cannes Film Festival, in El Disputado Voto del Señor Cayo and also in the TV series Juncal. In 1989, he was a member of the jury at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. In the 1999 he played the character of Francisco Goya in Carlos Saura Goya en Burdeos, winning a Goya Award as Best Actor. Francisco Rabal is the only Spanish actor to have received a honoris causa doctoral degree from the University of Murcia. Rabal's final movie was Dagon, a film which was dedicated to him right before the credits. The dedication read "Dedicated to Francisco Rabal, a wonderful actor and even better human being." Rabal died in 2001 from compensatory dilating emphysema, while on an airplane travelling to Bordeaux, when he was coming back from receiving an Award at Montreal Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Francisco Rabal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vania Tzvetkova

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Vania Tsvetkova Doycheva was born on January 12, 1958 in Sofia. He graduated acting in National Academy of Theater and Film Art, Sofia, Bulfaria in 1980 in the class of Grisha Ostrovsky. Her cinema debut was the movie " Status: Orderly" but she gets more popular with Christo Christov's film "Barrier" (portraying Doroteya) on the novel by Pavell Vezhinov. She won awards at film festivals in Varna and Moscow. With her participation in the cash hits of Bulgarian cinema "Avalanche" on the book of Blaga Dimitrova and "Combine" (portraying Suni) Vania Tzvetkova rapidly became a nationwide favorite. Both films starred by Ivan Ivanov. Vanya Tsvetkova lives in Las Vegas with her son and only occasionally comes in Bulgaria. However, in 2004 Vania Tsvetkova starred in Sofia "Our Other Possible Life" (portraying Tram driver). In 2011 starred in the television series "Seven Hours Difference" and in 2013 in the series "Family."
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