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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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Martini Animashaun

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Martini Animashaun is an Actor, Executive Producer, Producer, filmmaker, and born and raised in Oyo State Ibadan, He has worked with so many big artists in the Entertainment industry like Toyin Abraham and many more. Martini Animashaun was born on 11th July 1980 in Oyo State, Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. He is, however, a native of Ibadan Oyo State. He went to Olivet Baptist High School Oyo Nigeria (formerly Oyo Baptist Boys' High School) and graduated from Olabisi Onabanjo University, where he obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering. He has starred in several Nigerian Movies over the years like Omoge Animashaun, Afopina, Ori Ade, Opolo", Aseni, Tani, Omo Aje, Iremide , Ise Aje , and many more. Also managed Toyin Abraham reality show titled (kuwta) 'Keeping Up With Toyin Aimakhu' in fact and made her more great in the year 2016.
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Svetlana Alliluyeva

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Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, later known as Lana Peters, was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin's second wife. In 1967, she caused an international furore when she defected and became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Upon her arrival in New York City in April 1967, she gave a press conference denouncing her father's legacy and the Soviet government. Svetlana Alliluyeva became the talk of the town and was introduced into the New York hip crowd by Mary Hayward Weir, Jerzy Kosinski and Anita Goldstein among other. In 1984, she returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship returned.
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Eiko Kujo

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Kujyo Kyoko (October 22, 1935 - April 30, 2014) was a Japanese actress, theater, film producer from Azabu, Tokyo. The stage name of the actress was Eiko Kujo (Kujo Eiko). Real name is Eiko Terayama (Torayama Eiko). Husband Shuji Terayama. After graduating from Mihoda Gakuen Junior High School · High School, she debuted on the stage of Shochiku Opera Group under the name of Eiko Kujo. After that, she moved to Shochiku movie and appeared in Yoshitaro Nomura's film "Yellow cherries" (1960) etc etc. In 1967 Shuji Terayama, Tadanori Yokoo and others founded "Drama Laboratory / Ceiling Arts", and Kujo is responsible for the production. Also made a movie. In 1970 she got divorced from Terayama (except Terayama's surname). After Terayama died in 1983, she was in charge of the copyright management of the Terayama work and gave lectures all over the country. In recent years I gave a lecture at Hirosaki Gakuin University in 2009. She served as Representative Director of Terayama World Limited Company. Misawa City Shuji Terayama memorial hall honorary director. Misawa City Tourism Ambassador. On April 30, 2014, she died at his house in Tokyo due to rupture of esophageal varices due to cirrhosis of the liver. 78 year old died. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Devin Dunne Cannon

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Recently nominated for "Best Lead Actor" at the 2021 Madrid International Film Festival for her performance in Walk With Me, which has been receiving a great deal of positive attention at festivals around the globe. Devin can also be seen on 30 Rock (NBC), Louie (FX), and Smile For The Camera (Episodic Web Series). After completing the conservatory training at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, she went on to graduate with honors from The New School with a BFA in Musical Theatre. Post college, Devin became a founding member of Strangemen Theatre Company, a group of artists dedicated to creating company-devised work. With them she originated roles in the such shows as the political thriller On the Head of a Pin, (Gwen Post), Ten Days in a Madhouse (Nurse Scott) and most notably, the vocalist and mother to the Tin Man in the Obie Award winning production of The Woodsman, at New World Stages which can be viewed on Broadway HD.
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Valérie Bègue

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Valérie Bègue (born 26 September 1985) is a French reality television personality and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss France 2008, representing Réunion island, an overseas department of France located in the Indian Ocean. Bègue is the first Miss France from Réunion island since Monique Uldaric, who was elected in 1976. Two weeks after she was crowned Miss France, pictures of Bègue taken before her election, fully clothed but in suggestive poses on rather tame pictures, were released by French tabloid "Entrevue". The President of the Miss France contest, Geneviève de Fontenay, went on French radio to insist that Valérie Bègue should step down and return her crown, or that she would be forcibly disqualified. Fontenay told reporters that if Endemol, the production company which owns the Miss France contest, disagreed with her decision, she would stand down as president. On a previous occasion, Fontenay had obtained the temporary suspension of Miss France 2004, Lætitia Bléger, for much more suggestive pictures published in the French edition of Playboy magazine, as a Miss France winner is contractually obligated not to pose for controversial pictures for five years after winning the title and an entrant in the Miss France contest must state that she has never posed for nude or partially nude pictures beforehand. Valérie Bègue took some time to reflect on her decision, and finally decided that she would not stand down voluntarily, explaining that the set of pictures in question were test shots and that she had not authorized their publication. Fontenay was accused of racism and of not wanting a non-French Miss France, after she said that Bègue should stay in Réunion. A public apology was then demanded by people from the island, including a member of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement. On 28 December 2007, Fontenay announced that Bègue would be allowed to remain as Miss France 2008, as long as she did not take part in any international contests. Fontenay said she had based this position on the fact that the general public, who had helped to choose Bègue as Miss France, had no idea these pictures existed, and that their existence barred Bègue from international competitions, arguing that she did not want such pictures to give a false image of France. Bègue's first runner-up was Vahinerii Requillart, who represented the island of New Caledonia, another overseas territory of France, which is located in the Pacific Ocean. As a result, the top two finalists of the 2008 Miss France pageant originated from overseas departments of France. Valérie Bègue is involved in programmes against breast cancer and genetic diseases. She participated in Danse avec les stars, the French version of Dancing with the Stars. In 2011, Valérie Bègue was a contestant on the second season of Danse avec les stars – the French version of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with professional dancer Grégory Guichard. On October 22, 2011, were eliminated finishing 7th out of 9 contestants. Bègue was married to Camille Lacourt, a French Olympic swimmer, in August 2008. She has a daughter. Lacourt and Bègue divorced in 2016. Source: Article "Valérie Bègue" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Nikki Amini

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Negar Nikki Amini, (born 23 October 1984) is an Iranian-born Swedish marketer at Universal Music Groups office in London. Since 2016, she has served as a judge on the Swedish version of Idol broadcast on TV4 - 2016 alongside Fredrik Kempe and Quincy Jones III, and since 2017 alongside Kishti Tomita, Alexander Kronlund and Anders Bagge. She confirmed after 2020's final show that she will not appear in the next season of the show. Having begun her career as a marketer for the record label Warner Music, Amini has worked with musicians including Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Avicii and Justin Bieber. She participated in Let's Dance 2018 broadcast on TV4.
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Steven Ted Beckler

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Steven Ted Beckler is an American film, television and stage actor. Born in Harbor City, California, he made his Broadway debut in Disney's Beauty And The Beast at the Palace Theatre; Steven also performed in such stage shows as the Los Angeles' company of Beauty And The Beast. The Producers ("Leo" Company National Tour, Las Vegas Company and Hollywood Bowl), The Radio City Christmas Spectacular as Santa Claus at the Grand Ole Opry In Nashville and Broadway's Most Happy Fella at Lincoln Center. Theatre has been his passion but acting in any any genre is what motivates him most. Steven is a cancer survivor of 35 years and he resides on the East Coast with his family.
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Tony Orlando

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Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis (born April 3, 1944), better known as Tony Orlando, is an Americanshow business professional, best known as the lead singer of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn in the early 1970s. Discovered by producer Don Kirshner, Orlando had songs on the charts in 1961 when he was 16, "Halfway to Paradise" and "Bless You". Orlando then became a producer himself, and at an early age was promoted to a vice-president position at CBS Records, where he was in charge of the April-Blackwood Music division. He sang under the name "Dawn" in the 1970s, and when the songs became hits, he went on tour and the group became "Tony Orlando and Dawn". They had several songs which were major hits including "Candida", "Knock Three Times", and "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree". The group hosted a variety program, "The Tony Orlando and Dawn Show" on CBS from 1974–76, and then broke up in 1978. Orlando then continued as a solo singer, performing in Las Vegas and Branson, Missouri.[1] Orlando has hosted the New York City portions of the MDA Labor Day Telethon on WWOR-TV since the 1980s but quit in 2011 in response to Jerry Lewis' firing from the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
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Tessa Blanchard

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Tessa Blanchard is an American professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in Impact Wrestling, where she became the first female wrestler to win the Impact World Championship and is also a former Impact Knockouts Champion. A third-generation professional wrestler, Blanchard is the daughter of Four Horsemen member Tully Blanchard and the stepdaughter of Blanchard's rival Magnum TA. In addition, Blanchard is a former The Crash Women's Champion, AAA Reina de Reinas Champion, and WOW World Champion.
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