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Kader Belarbi

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Kader Belarbi (born 1962) is a French ballet dancer, choreographer and director. He spent his whole career in the Paris National Opera Ballet, between 1980 and 2008, and belongs to the company’s “Nureyev generation”, having been made an étoile (principal) by Rudolf Nureyev in 1989. Since 2012, he has been Director of Dance at the Toulouse Capitol Theatre, heading the Capitol Ballet. Belarbi’s repertoire as a dancer includes a wide range of classical as well as neoclassical and contemporary works, a number of which he premiered for prominent contemporary choreographers in Paris and as a guest artist in other companies. He himself choreographed around forty works. In the past few years, he has undertaken to revisit the academic repertoire, bringing le Corsaire to France and producing a revised version of Giselle. In February 2023 he was fired from the Capitol Theatre’s director position for managerial deficiencies. Source: Article "Kader Belarbi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Alfonso Herrera

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Alfonso Herrera Rodríguez (n. 28 de agosto de 1983) es un actor mexicano. Ex integrante del grupo RBD.En el mes de septiembre de 2009 anunció que se retiró del mundo de la música para dedicarse a la actuaciónActor mexicano que inició su carrera en el teatro con obras como "Las brujas de Salem", "Cómo matar a un ruiseñor" y "Antígona", pero fue hasta su participación en la película "Amarte Duele" de Fernando Sariñana del 2002,3 que consiguió notoriedad en el ambiente artístico.Luego de su participación en el cine, el productor Pedro Damián le dio la oportunidad para interpretar el papel de "Juan David" en la telenovela Clase 406, después de terminar dicho proyecto, trabajó nuevamente con el mismo productor, en esta ocasión para la telenovela Rebelde, en la que daba vida a "Miguel Arango", lo que permitió crear la banda RBD, integrada, además de él, por Anahí, Dulce María, Maite Perroni, Christopher Uckermann y Christian Chávez, sus compañeros de telenovela.Al terminar Rebelde, iniciaron las grabaciones del programa "RBD: La familia", el cual narra, de forma ficticia, la vida de los integrantes de la banda.A mediados de 2008, RBD anuncia su separación y su gira "del adiós", después de cuatro años de éxito, en octubre, lanzaron el disco con sus mejores éxitos.Tras la confesión de su compañero de grupo Christian Chávez al declararse homosexual, Alfonso Herrera declaró que su amigo cuenta con su apoyo, "ya que la sexualidad no hace a un hombre, sino sus ideas".[cita requerida]En su tiempo libre, le gusta practicar deportes como fútbol, capoeira y ski acuático, le gusta mucho el cine, por lo que uno de sus pasatiempos es ver películas, las cuales acostumbra coleccionar.En marzo de 2008, regresó a sus inicios al integrarse al elenco de la puesta en escena "Pillow Man", con un papel pequeño para no interferir con las presentaciones de RBD.4 En septiembre protagoniza la primera temporada de la serie Terminales,5 junto a Ana Claudia Talancón. En diciembre regresó al cine para protagonizar la comedia romántica Volverte a ver,6 de los creadores deCansada de besar sapos.Le prestó su voz a Igor, el personaje central de la cinta de animación del mismo nombre producida por The Weinstein Company, que se estrenará en septiembre de 2009 bajo la distribución de Videocine.7 8En el 2009 trabajó en las series Tiempo final9 en el episodido "El billete" el cual salió al aire el 13 de octubre de 200910 y Mujeres asesinas.El 11 de marzo de 2009 viajó a Colombia para protagonizar un capítulo de la tercera temporada de la serie de TV, Tiempo final. En abril protagoniza el episodio llamado "Soledad, cautiva" de la segunda temporada de Mujeres asesinas junto a Angelique Boyer y Roberto Ballesteros.11El 27 de julio de ese mismo año, inició un papel protagónico en la telenovela de Rosy Ocampo llamada Camaleones, en la que compartió créditos con Belinda.12En septiembre de 2009 se estrenó de la película venezolana Venezzia en la que trabaja junto a las actrices venezolanas Ruddy Rodríguez y Johanna Morales.13En abril de 2010 participó en el juego especial de futbol entre famosos y ex integrantes de la selección nacional de Estados Unidos para MTV llamado Rock N' Gol.14En julio de 2010 inicia el rodaje de la película La suerte esta echada dirigida por Juan Carlos de Llaca15 y debuta como conductor de AXN Film Festival 2010.
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Sebastian Fabijański

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Sebastian Fabijański was born 14 June 1987 in Warsaw. He studied acting in Wyższa Szkoła Komunikowania i Mediów Społecznych in Warsaw, then law in the University of Warsaw and again acting in National Academy of Theatre Arts in Kraków and in Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. In 2015 Fabijański graduated from Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw with a MA degree in Acting. In 2014 he won an award for the Professional Acting Debut at the 39th Polish Film Festival in Gdynia for his roles in films Jeziorak (English title Waterline) and 'Miasto 44 (English title Warsaw 44). In 2015 he won an Andrzej Konic Award for Acting Debut at the 29th Tarnów Film Awards for his roles in films 'Waterline (original title Jeziorak) and Warsaw 44 (original title Miasto 44).
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Jack Lee

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Jack Lee was born in London, England in 1956. He attended the Webber Douglas Acadamy of Dramatic Art in 1979 and worked in theatre and TV in the UK before moving to the US in 1997 with just a suitcase and guitar and $350 in cash. He worked as a chimney sweep in Santa Fe, New Mexico, before moving to Austin, Texas, where he picked up his acting career again. Apart from appearing in various films, he's also working on screenplays of his own, as well as writing about his experiences surviving in America, and producing the documentaries "Conversations with Sara Jane" and "Real Men". He now divides his time between his home in Santa Fe with his wife, 2 cats, 2 dogs and 60 chickens, and Los Angeles.
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Mark Redfield

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Mark Redfield is an actor, voice actor, writer, director, filmmaker and artist. Redfield Arts Audio produces audio books and original audio dramas. Titles available on Audible worldwide, and other platforms, include "Frankenstein Mobster" with Daniel Roebuck and Debbie Rochon, "Nevermore: An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe" starring Jeffrey Combs, "Sinbad and the Pirate Princess" starring Caroline Munro and Martine Beswicke, and many others. The Redfield Arts Audio Podcast can be heard weekly on all podcast platforms. Film and TV work include "Fall of the House of Usher" (Netflix 2023), "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (2002), Larry Blamire's "Dark and Stormy Night", and many other indie films and television programs. In theatre, Redfield has acted in or directed over 200 plays professionally. He studied at Towson University, and UNESCO's Theatre of Nations. Redfield has been a voice actor for many years, narrating audio books, voicing commercials, video games, and narrating documentaries. As an illustrator and painter, his drawings, paintings and cartoons have been shown and collected around the world. With Stuart Voytilla, Redfield is the co-author of "Cult of the Nosferatu", the first novel in the Vampire Hunters Incorporated series.
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Amelia Bullmore

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Amelia Bullmore (born 31 January 1964) is an English actress and writer. She was born in London and studied drama at the University of Manchester. Bullmore started working as an actor but turned to writing in 1995. Her writing credits include episodes for This Life, Attachments and Black Cab. She appeared as 'Sonja', the Ukrainian girlfriend of the protagonist in the comedy I'm Alan Partridge. She is currently featuring in commercials for Direct Line insurance where she plays a prospective customer at a car show. Bullmore was a finalist for the Dennis Potter Award in 2000 for her 90 minute drama entitled The Middle. Her first stage play, Mammals was the winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and was shortlisted for the What's On Best New Comedy Award. From 1990 she played the role of Steph Barnes in Coronation Street. She has also recently appeared on BBC Radio 4's phone-in spoof Down the Line. Description above from the Wikipedia article Amelia Bullmore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Nancy Nevinson

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Nancy Nevinson (26 July 1918 – 25 January 2012) was an India-born English actress. Nevinson was born in Chittagong, East Bengal, British India. Nevison worked on stage, in film and on television. She also dubbed voices for both young and old. She appeared in the films Foxhole in Cairo (1960), Light in the Piazza (1962), Mrs. Gibbons' Boys (1962), Ring of Spies (1964), The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), For the Love of Ada (1972), Symptoms (1974), Jesus of Nazareth (1977), S.O.S. Titanic (1979), Le Pétomane (1979), Raise the Titanic (1980), Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), and Mrs Dalloway (1997). In 2001, she moved to Wokingham, to a retirement home funded by the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund especially for film- and TV-personalities. Nevinson died there on 25 January 2012, aged 93. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mike Shaw

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Michael Paul Shaw was an American professional wrestler who was best known for his stint in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as Norman the Lunatic, and as Bastion Booger in WWE. He feuded with Bam Bam Bigelow after "falling in love" with Bigelow's valet, Luna Vachon. While teaming with Bigelow on the January 3, 1994 episode of Monday Night Raw, Booger kissed Vachon, causing Bigelow to get angry. Booger and Bigelow faced each other the following week, and Bigelow won the match after Vachon distracted Booger by blowing him kisses. Booger was scheduled to appear in the 1994 Royal Rumble match, but he no showed with the kayfabe explanation that he overate and got sick. He lost his final match on WWE TV to Koko B. Ware in April 1994 and left WWE in August 1994. On December 10, 2007 during the WWE Raw 15th anniversary special, he returned as Bastion Booger in the opening segment, in which Triple H jokingly suggested that Big Dick Johnson (another character whose unsightly physical appearance had been used by WWE for comic effect) was Booger's son. Shaw worked for various independent promotions in his final years, and trained several wrestlers in Saginaw, MI. His final match was in Paramus, NJ on July 24, 2009 in a losing effort against Prince Akkanatan. Jakks Pacific added Bastion Booger to the Classic Superstars line, series 25.
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David Canal

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is a Cuban professional wrestler better known by his ring name "The Cuban Assassin (El Sanguinario Cubano)" Fidel Sierra. He is notable for being a longtime veteran of the Puerto Rico-based World Wrestling Council as well as for his appearances in World Championship Wrestling and Pacific Northwest Wrestling during the 1980s and 1990s. He wrestled under the name The Cuban Assassin towards the end of his career Sierra was trained by Hiro Matsuda in Tampa, Florida. Sierra has worked for Puerto Rico's World Wrestling Council (WWC) since 1985, as both a wrestler and a backstage worker. He also wrestled all over the United States, including in Dallas, Texas for the Von Erich family, in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling for the Crockett family (Jim Crockett, Sr. and Jim Crockett, Jr.), in Florida and Georgia, and for Don Owen in Portland, Oregon. He has also competed in Stampede Wrestling in Canada, in the Dominican Republic, and in Japan, via his association with the National Wrestling Alliance. In Japan, he competed against the likes of Andre the Giant, Antonio Inoki, and Tatsumi Fujinami. He also competed under a mask in Mexico as The Boricua until he lost a Mask vs. Mask match to La Parka. While wrestling under the ring name 'Top Gun', Sierra faced Ric Flair in a match that ended in a 60-minute time limit draw. Sierra also wrestled in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) as 'Fidel Sierra', making appearances between 1994 and 1997. He is known for a Feud with Jim Duggan provoked by international tensions between democracy in the United States and communism in Cuba. In WCW, Fidel Sierra regularly teamed with Ricky Santana. Originally billed as The Cuban Connection, the duo were renamed The Barrio Brothers (Ricky Barrio and Fidel Barrio) in the mid-1990s in an effort to appear more up-to-date.[5] Sierra and Santana also performed in WCW wearing masks and full-body suits as Los Especialistas (Especialista I and Especialista II). Their identities were revealed on-air on the live Main Event pre-show of Clash of the Champions XXXI, when they were unmasked by The Nasty Boys following a match. In between his WCW appearances, Sierra also wrestled several matches for the World Wrestling Federation in 1994 and 1995. Under the name 'Fidel Sierra', he made his first appearance on the February 5, 1994 episode of WWF Superstars, teaming with Barry Horowitz in a loss to The 1-2-3 Kid and Marty Jannetty. He then teamed with Ricky Santana in two tryout matches at WWF TV tapings that June, though the pair was not signed. Sierra would make two more appearances on WWF television in 1995 as 'David Sierra', losing to Aldo Montoya on the January 30 episode of Monday Night Raw and once again teaming with Barry Horowitz to lose to Men on a Mission on the February 9 edition of WWF Wrestling Challenge. While wrestling in Canada as "Crazy" David Patterson, Sierra asked permission from the original Cuban Assassin, Ángel Acevedo, to use the 'Cuban Assassin' character, to which Acevedo agreed, on the condition that Sierra did not use the name or gimmick in Japan. Personal life Sierra is married to Fantasy, his long-time manager. She is his fourth wife, and as of 2011, the pair have been married for 19 years. Sierra has two daughters and a son. Sierra and his wife own a sports bar, Crazy Dave's Sports Bar, in Largo, Florida
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