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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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Brian Michael Smith

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Brian Michael Smith (born January 29, 1983) is an American actor known for ground-breaking performances on television and advocacy for trans representation in media. His role as Toine Wilkins, a transgender police officer, in Ava DuVernay’s Queen Sugar (OWN), launched him into a series of high-profile roles including political strategist Pierce Williams in Showtime's The L Word: Generation Q (2019) cast. Smith became the first out black trans man in a series regular role on network television when he was cast as firefighter Paul Strickland in FOX's 9-1-1: Lone Star (2020). Other appearances include NBC's Chicago P.D., HBO's Girls, and Showtime's thriller Homeland.
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Keke Palmer

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Lauren Keyana "Keke" Palmer (born August 26, 1993) is an American actress, singer and television personality. Known for playing leading and character roles in comedy and drama productions, she has received several accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, five NAACP Image Awards, and nominations for a Daytime Emmy Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Time magazine included her on their list of most influential people in the world in 2019. Palmer made her acting debut in Barbershop 2: Back in Business (2004). She later appeared in the television film The Wool Cap (2004), and had her breakthrough starring in the drama film Akeelah and the Bee (2006). She progressed as a child actress with roles in Madea's Family Reunion (2006), Jump In! (2007), The Longshots (2008) and Shrink (2009). Palmer played a number of roles on Nickelodeon, such as the title character in the sitcom True Jackson, VP (2008–2011). 2014 to 2015 she starred as Ella in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway. She has since starred in the Facebook Watch series Turnt Up with the Taylors (2021) for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award. She also starred in films such as Animal (2014), Hustlers (2019) and Jordan Peele's Nope (2022).
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Tomoyo Kurosawa

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Tomoyo Kurosawa (黒沢 ともよ, born April 10, 1996) is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer from Chichibu, Saitama who is affiliated with Toho Entertainment. Her major voice acting roles in anime are in Yuki Yuna Is a Hero as Itsuki Inubozaki, Sound! Euphonium as Kumiko Oumae and Land of the Lustrous as Phosphophyllite. Kurosawa began studying acting at the age of 3. In 2000, she began appearing in TV dramas, commercials and stage performances. Kurosawa became a support member of Sound Horizon in 2008, appearing in their sixth CD story "Moira" that same year, and in Sound Horizon's seventh CD story "Märchen", released in 2010. Kurosawa made her voice acting debut as Natsuki Koyama in the 2010 anime film Welcome to the Space Show. In 2012, she moved from Space Craft to Mausu Promotion. On March 3, 2018, she won the 12th Seiyu Awards Best Actress in a Leading Role. She graduated from Hosei University in 2019. On August 1, 2021, she announced her transfer from Mausu Promotion to Toho Entertainment. Source: Wikipedia
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Mithun Chakraborty

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Gourang Chakraborty (born 16 June 1950), better known by his stage name Mithun Chakraborty (informally referred to as Mithun Da), is an Indian film actor, singer, producer, writer, social worker, entrepreneur, television presenter and a former Rajya Sabha Member of Parliament. He is the recipient of two Filmfare Awards and three National Film Awards. He made his acting debut with the art house drama Mrigayaa (1976), for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor. Mithun Chakraborty is a three-time National Film Award-winning Indian film actor, social activist and entrepreneur. Mithun Chakraborty made his acting debut starring alongside Bollywood actress Safya Hanif with the arthouse drama Mrigaya (1976), for which he won his first National Film Award for Best Actor. He had earned a huge fan following as a dancing star and went on to establish himself as one of the most popular and leading actors of India, particularly recognised for his role of street dancer Jimmy in the 1982 movie Disco Dancer. Chakraborty has appeared in about 250 Hindi films, as well as a number of Bengali, Oriya and Bhojpuri pictures. He owns the Monarch Group, which has interests in the hospitality sector. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mithun Chakraborty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​
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Chelsea Cardona

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Chelsea Anne Cardona (née: Green; born April 4, 1991) is a Canadian professional wrestler, stuntwoman, and model. She is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the Raw brand under the ring name Chelsea Green. She is one-half of the current WWE Women's Tag Team Champion with Sonya Deville in their first reign. She is also known for her time in Impact Wrestling, where she is a former Impact Knockouts Champion and Impact Knockouts World Tag Team Champion. She is the fourth woman to hold the WWE and Impact Women's Tag Team Championships after Zelina Vega and The IIconics (Billie Kay, and Peyton Royce). Green has appeared extensively on the independent wrestling circuit in North America and Asia. In addition, she has appeared for the National Wrestling Alliance, Ring of Honor, and World Wonder Ring Stardom. During her first run in Impact Wrestling, which is when she won the Impact Knockouts Championship, Green performed under the ring name Laurel Van Ness. She also played Reklusa on the Lucha Underground TV series.
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Aika Mitsui

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光井愛佳 (Mitsui Aika) is a former Japanese singer. She was an 8th generation member of Morning Musume. under Hello! Project. After suffering a leg fracture in 2011, she was unable to keep up with a new dance-oriented Morning Musume., and graduated alongside Niigaki Risa in May 2012. However, she stayed within Hello! Project and was the first Morning Musume. graduate to do so since 2007. She was listed as a soloist, but she never released any music due to her going on hiatus twice since 2013 to study English in New Zealand. While on her second hiatus in November 2018, Mitsui decided to graduate from Hello! Project and retire from the entertainment industry.
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Lashana Lynch

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Lashana Rasheda Lynch (born 27 November 1987) is a British actress. She is best known for playing the role of Rosaline Capulet in the ABC period drama series Still Star-Crossed (2017) and fighter pilot Maria Rambeau in Captain Marvel (2019). Lynch made her film debut in the 2012 drama film Fast Girls. She later co-starred in the BBC television film The 7.39. On television, she has appeared in Silent Witness and Death in Paradise and was a regular cast member on the short-lived BBC comedy Crims in 2015. In 2016, Lynch was cast as leading character Rosaline Capulet in the American period drama series Still Star-Crossed, produced by Shonda Rhimes. In 2018, she joined the cast of Y as Agent 355. In 2019, she played fighter pilot Maria Rambeau in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain Marvel. She has been cast as Nomi in the James Bond film No Time to Die, due for release in November 2020. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Lashana Lynch, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Hanli Rolfes

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Hanli Rolfes (credited as Hanli Rolfes-Opperman from 2002-2010) is a South African actress best known for her role as Sarah-Lee Odendaal on the SABC1 soapie Generations, from 1996-2001. She received an Honours degree in Drama (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria in 1994. Shortly thereafter she made her television debut as Lieutenant Bernice Fox in Scholtz Films's Die Laksman, after which she started her six-year stint on Generations. She has had lead roles in a number of major shows on Afrikaans pay channel kykNET, including the roles of Louise Schoeman in the soapie Villa Rosa, Sophia Landman in the drama series Kruispad, Sonja Mostert in Binnelanders and Lanie in Getroud Met Rugby, a drama series she co-created with her husband at the time, Deon Opperman. Other television series she has appeared in include Justice For All, The Adventures of Sinbad, Vetkoekpaleis, Egoli, Iemand om lief te hê (Someone to Love), Jozi Streets, 4Play: Sex Tips for Girls, Askies, Soul City, Skeem Saam, Hartland and Geraamtes in die Kas. She also has numerous theatre credits, including the Afrikaans plays Boesman my Seun (2005), Twaalfuurwals (2006), Kaburu (2007) and Knypie Oppie Kant (2008). She was one of the contestant panelists on the SABC2 game show Where Were You?, from August to November, 2008. Hanli was married to fellow actor and playwright Deon Opperman from 2002-2010, with the marriage ending in divorce.
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Rudolf Krause

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Rudolf Krause (1964 in Karlsruhe) ist ein deutscher Schauspieler. Rudolf Krause wurde 1964 in Karlsruhe geboren und lebte dort bis er acht Jahre alt war. Dann siedelte die Familie nach Hannover über. Durch seinen Musiklehrer kam ein Kontakt zur Statisterie des Opernhauses Hannover zustande. In kleinen Rollen sammelte er erste Erfahrungen auf der Bühne und war an vielen Musiktheater-Inszenierungen beteiligt u.a. mit den Regisseuren Herbert Wernicke und Intendant Hans-Peter Lehmann. Er entschloss sich für eine Schauspielausbildung, die er an der Hochschule der Künste Berlin erhielt. Danach war er für ein Jahr an der Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz engagiert und anschließend an der Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord in Wilhelmshaven. Danach arbeitete er frei - in Berlin, in Wien und Zürich, in Schauspiel-, Tanz- und Musiktheaterproduktionen, u.a. am Maxim-Gorki-Theater, dem Berliner Ensemble, der Neuköllner Oper, dem Fasson Theater Zürich - und immer öfter auch in Fernsehproduktionen.  Sechs Jahre lang machte er Improvisationstheater und trat im Chamäleon-Varieté in Berlin und als Gast des Impro-Theater-Ensembles Die Gorillas auf. Seitdem unterrichtet er unterschiedliche Formen der Improvisation sowie Rollen- und Szenenarbeit als Dozent am Michael Tschechow Studio Berlin. Er ist Mitglied des Freyer Ensembles, des Malers, Regisseurs und Bühnenbildners Achim Freyer und arbeitete mit ihm in Inszenierungen an der Deutschen Oper Berlin, der Staatsoper Unter den Linden und zuletzt 2013 am Musiktheater Linzin 'Cage Stage', einem Projekt mit Werken - und nach Ideen - von John Gage, zusammen mit Musikern desBrucknerorchesters Linz und dem Dirigenten Dennis Russell Davies. Rudolf Krause wurde für seine Rolle als Hauptkommissar André Langner im Pilotfilm Verdecktes Spiel der Krimi-ReiheUnter Verdacht 2002 für den Deutschen Fernsehpreis in der Kategorie Bester Schauspieler in einer Nebenrolle nominiert und 2003 zusammen mit Drehbuchautor Alexander Adolph, Regisseur Friedemann Fromm und den SchauspielernSenta Berger und Gerd Anthoff mit dem Adolf-Grimme-Preis ausgezeichnet.
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