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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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Paul Dinello

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paul Dinello (born November 28, 1962) is an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and an alumnus of Chicago-based The Second City, Improv Institute, and Annoyance Theatre. He is best known for his role on Comedy Central's Strangers with Candy as Geoffrey Jellineck, the closeted gay art teacher at Flatpoint High, who carries on a not-so-secret relationship with his colleague Chuck Noblet (Stephen Colbert). Dinello dated the show's star Amy Sedaris for eight years after they met at Second City. In 2003 Dinello co-authored the novel Wigfield with Sedaris and Colbert, which they promoted by creating a traveling play. Most recently, Dinello has made guest appearances on Colbert's show The Colbert Report as Tad, the building manager. The character is often berated by Colbert, who forces him to do dangerous things. Dinello has made at least five appearances on The Colbert Report, including a tumbling act with Colbert and their Strangers costar Sedaris in July 2006. Dinello was also a writer, producer and director for the Strangers with Candy film, which was released in July 2006. In January 2009, Participant Media announced it would produce Dinello's next film, Mr. Burnout (about a burned out teacher seeking to rekindle his love of teaching). He was one of the main cast in the show Exit 57, also starring Sedaris and Colbert. He also appeared as Mr. Rooney in the film Be Kind Rewind, alongside Jack Black and Mos Def. Dinello recently directed the Nickelodeon original movie Gym Teacher: The Movie, starring Christopher Meloni and Amy Sedaris. Dinello can be seen with Amy Sedaris in the "Mummified Hand" episode of the Science Channel show Oddities. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Dinello, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Sean Maguire

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Sean Maguire (born Sean Martin Michael Maguire, 18 April 1976, Ilford, Essex) is an English actor and singer, who rose to fame in 1988 when at the age of eleven he took on the role of "Tegs" Ratcliffe on the BBC children's drama Grange Hill, in which he remained until 1992. For a short time after leaving Grange Hill, he played Aidan Brosnan in EastEnders. He has appeared in several feature films and also had moderate success as a singer. He is known in the US for his roles as Donovan Brink in the UPN sitcom Eve, and as Kyle Lendo in the CBS sitcom The Class. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Maguire, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kenichi Suzumura

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Kenichi Suzumura was born September 12, 1974 in Niigata, Japan and raised in Osaka. He is a voice actor and singer currently affiliated with Intention, which he is also the representative director of and formerly affiliated with Arts Vision. He made his television animation debut on Macross 7 in 1994. In addition to performing many different character songs in his voice acting career, Suzumura has become a singer signed under the Lantis label. As a solo artist he writes all his songs. In his debut year 2008, Suzumura also became one of the main hosts of the annual live music event Original Entertainment Paradise. He is married to fellow voice actress Maaya Sakamoto. Katsumi Aida, Takeshi Sonomura and Daisuke Takigawa are aliases Kenichi Suzumura used for adult work.
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Léon Zitrone

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Léon Zitrone (25 November 1914 – 25 November 1995) was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter. Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. He arrived in France with his family fleeing communism at the age of six. He graduated from the ESJ Paris. He began by training in scientific studies but his mastership of Russian, French, English and German gave him entrance in 1948 to the radio foreign broadcasting services of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF). In 1959, he joined the television activity of RTF. From 1961, he became news presenter, function he occupied for nearly 20 years, first until 1975, on the first French television channel (now TF1), then also on Antenne 2, the other public service channel. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach called him back in 1979. He then took charge of the news program during the week-end (his contract was established until 1 February 1981). He would come back for those news programs also during the Easter and Pentecost week-ends. But Léon Zitrone's celebrity is due to the programs he presented or co-presented. He was host of the televised program Intervilles (French counterpart of Britain's It's a Knockout) with Guy Lux. He commented 6 times the Tour de France, and he is remembered for his prodigious memory for names of riders. He presented the Olympics for 8 times, commented the Eurovision Song Contest on 4 occasions and presented 16 Bastille Day military parades. Above all, he was the key-commenter for big events, such as weddings, burials or investitures of world's key figures, some thirty of them during the course of his career. In 1978, following French singer Marie Myriam's victory the previous year, the Eurovision song contest took place in Paris. Léon Zitrone co-presented with Denise Fabre and made the presentation in English. In 1984, Zitrone took a leading role in the movie American Dreamer. He died from a cerebral hemorrhage on his 81st birthday, 25 November 1995, at the Val-de-Grâce hospital in Paris. Source: Article "Léon Zitrone" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sam Heughan

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Sam graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2003. He was nominated for a 2003 Laurence Olivier Award (Most Promising Performance) for Outlying Islands at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs. Sam has appeared in various TV programmes including: A Very British Sex Scandal (Channel 4), Any Human Heart (Film4), Midsomer Murders (ITV) and as a regular character in BBC Soaps River City and Doctors. His film leads include: Young Alexander The Great (Ilya Salkind Company) and Emulsion (White Lantern Films), while theatre credits include: Plague Over England (Duchess, West End), MacBeth (Nottingham, Edinburgh Lyceum), Romeo And Juliet (Dundee Rep) and Hamlet (Citizens Glasgow).
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Christian Madsen

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Christian Madsen was born in 1990 in Los Angeles to actors Michael Madsenand Jeannine Bisignano. He began acting at the age of ten, when he appeared in a small role in one of his father's films, and spent time on the set of a number of other films, including Free Willy and The Getaway. His grandmother, filmmaker Elaine Madsen, encouraged him to pursue a career in acting after watching his performances in high school theater. His parents divorced when he was a child and he subsequently "bounced around a lot" between his parents' homes in Malibu, the San Fernando Valley, Santa Fe, and Montana. He eventually moved in with his grandmother when he was 17, and she took him to the Actors Studio and introduced him to the head of its Hollywood branch, Martin Landau. Madsen's early film career consisted mainly of small roles with his father and independent films. He took on other jobs while continuing to audition for acting roles. He had been auditioning without any successes for over two years and was about to be evicted from his Los Angeles apartment when he won a role in Divergent, a film adaptation of Veronica Roth's young adult novel of the same name. After filming Divergent, Madsen was cast in the lead role of the upcoming independent film Prism, in which he plays a young man who is reunited with his amnesiac father after 15 years. In 2014, he also appeared in Palo Alto, a drama film directed by Gia Coppola, and he has been cast in Jack Squared.
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Daniel Freire

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Daniel Freire  (born 29 December 1961 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film actor. He entered film in 1993 in Un Muro de silencio and has appeared in over 15 films including Las Aventuras de Dios 2000 in which he portrayed Jesus Christ and Arizona Sur in 2004. However in 2005 he appeared in 27 episodes of the Argentine TV series Motivos personales. He has lived in Spain since 1999. Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Freire, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Évelyne Grandjean

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Évelyne Grandjean (born 7 April 1939 in Versailles) is a French stage, cinematic and television actress, playwright and television writer, and radio host. She has been also a prolific voice actress for many French-dubbed versions of foreign films and TV series, including 101 Dalmatians: The Series (as Spot, Princess and Nanny), Alfred J. Kwak (as Kwak), The Animals of Farthing Wood (as Adder the Snake), Around the World in Eighty Dreams (as Grandma Tadpole), Babar (as Celeste), A Bug's Life (as Dr. Flora), The Cat Returns (as Natoru), Chicken Run (as Bunty), Cinderella II: Dreams Come True (as Fairy Godmother), Cutey Honey (as Sister Jill), Dr. Slump (as Arale Norimaki), Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (as Elvira), The Flintstones (as Wilma Flintstone), Grey's Anatomy (as Ellis Grey), Ice Age: Continental Drift (as Granny), James and the Giant Peach (as Sponge and Ladybug), The Jetsons (as Jane and Rosie), Maple Town (as Patty Rabbit), Monsters, Inc. (as Ms. Flint), Muppet Treasure Island (as Mrs. Bluberidge), Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders (as Lady Kale), and Princess Knight (as Heckett the witch). Source: Article "Évelyne Grandjean" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Sreela Majumdar

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Sreela Majumdar (died 1/27/2024) was an Indian film actress who was predominantly associated with Bengali cinema. She made her industry debut with the 1978 movie Parashuram, under the direction of Mrinal Sen, and then went on to be a part of several movies like Ek Din Pratidin, Akaler Sandhane, Chokh, and Arohan. She was seen as a woman from a brothel in director Shyam Benegal's 1983 film Mandi, starring Shabana Azmi and Smita Patil in the lead roles. She then featured as one of leads opposite Om Puri and Anil Chatterjee in the role of a widow in the film Chokh. She was also part of movies like Ek Pal (1986) and Prasab (1994). Her 2017 venture includes the drama Baranda, which depicts the complexity of human relationships through the lives of two people. The movie stars her as one of the leads opposite Manali Dey, under the direction of Reshmi Mitra. Her 2023 releases include Palan, directed by Kaushik Ganguly.
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