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Arturo Valls
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Nació en el barrio de La Punta (Valencia). Estudió en el instituto San Vicente Ferrer. Comenzó la carrera de Periodismo en Valencia, la cual abandonó cuando empezó como reportero en una televisión local de Valencia (Valencia Te Ve), un magacine presentado por Laura Pérez Vehí llamado "La luna de Valencia", y teniendo como compañera de programa a Carmen Alcayde. Su debut en una televisión nacional fue en 1996, como reportero en la primera etapa de Caiga Quien Caiga, que presentaba Wyoming. Una vez que finalizó el programa en 2002, fue fichado por la FORTA, donde presentó el programa X cuánto?, que se emitió en varias cadenas autonómicas españolas como Telemadrid o Canal 9 y posteriormente presentó el espacio de zapping Licencia para mirar, donde protagonizó monólogos y sketches. Más tarde colaboraría con Florentino Fernández y Nuria Roca en el programa de humor UHF de Antena 3. Después presentó durante un corto espacio de tiempo Los Más, junto a Silvia Jato. Finalmente, recaló de nuevo en Telecinco, sustituyendo durante unos meses a Jesús Vázquez como presentador del concurso Allá tú. También participó en la serie Gominolas, que solo duró 7 capítulos en antena. Ha intervenido ocasionalmente en capítulos de varias series televisivas como Un paso adelante, 7 vidas y Aída. Por otra parte, ha desarrollado su faceta de actor en la gran pantalla en las películas El corazón del guerrero y Torrente 2: Misión en Marbella. Fue Jesús Quesada en Camera Café y posteriormente interpretó al mismo personaje en ¡Fibrilando! También colaboró esporádicamente en Muchachada Nui. En 2008 filmó la película 8 citas junto a Fernando Tejero entre otros. En diciembre de 2009 estrena el programa Vaya tropa en Cuatro, que es retirado poco después por sus bajos índices de audiencia. En julio de 2010 protagoniza la parodia La isla de los nominados y en el verano de 2011 ficha por Antena 3 para presentar el concurso ¡Ahora caigo!, concurso que en su primera emisión se hizo con el liderato de la noche y con el minuto de oro, siendo un gran triunfo.1 Tras aparecer como invitado especial en la primera edición del programa Tu cara me suena, desde el 1 de octubre de 2012 hasta el 11 de febrero de 2013 formó parte de la segunda edición, donde se clasificó como tercer finalista. El 23 de octubre de 2012 Arturo Valls presentó junto a Patricia Conde la gala de los Neox Fan Awards en Neox.2 El 18 de enero de 2013, Arturo Valls fue confirmado como presentador de Splash: famosos al agua, programa emitido por Antena 3. El 24 de septiembre de 2013 Arturo Valls volvió a presentar la segunda edición de los Neox Fan Awards en Neox junto a Anna Simon. Desde el 15 de noviembre de 2013 presenta en el prime time de los viernes de Antena 3 el concurso de cómicos Me resbala. El 28 de noviembre de 2013 volvió como invitado al programa Tu cara me suena imitando a Miley Cyrus.
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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.
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Calli Taylor
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Calli Taylor was born in Gainesville, Florida, the first child of a radio broadcaster and an executive production designer. She came to Los Angeles as a small child and grew up in the San Fernando Valley, developing a strong passion for the dramatic arts and entertainment. She has trained in dance, improvisation and voice from a young age and at 13 began drama instruction under David Gray at Gray Studios in Los Angeles. Calli then broke into the industry at 18 and has since been pursuing her dream of a blockbuster career.
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Toni Gonzaga
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Toni Gonzaga is a resident of Taytay, Rizal and the eldest daughter of Carlito and Crisanta Gonzaga, who also act as her talent manager. Her sister, Catherine "Cathy" Gonzaga, professionally known as Alex Gonzaga, is also an actress and television host. In Taytay, she was an elected Barangay Kagawad for one term and a Sunday school teacher in Taytay United Methodist Church. She studied mass communication at the Dominican College in San Juan for two years. Later, she transferred to the Asian Institute for Distance Education (AIDE) and shifted her major to AB English, which she wasn't able to finish due to her busy showbiz schedule. She is currently enrolled at the University of the Philippines Open University taking up her bachelor's degree in multimedia studies. On 1 February 2015, Gonzaga announced her engagement to director Paul Soriano, her boyfriend of eight years, on The Buzz and married on 12 June 2015 in her hometown, Taytay. In February 2016, a source announced that the couple was expecting their first child, due in late 2016 or early 2017. Gonzaga herself confirmed the announcement on ASAP on 17 April 2016.
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Jason Flemyng
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Jason Iain Flemyng (born September 25, 1966) is an English actor. He is known for his film work, which has included roles in British films such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), both for Guy Ritchie, as well as Hollywood productions such as Rob Roy (1995) along with the Alan Moore comic book adaptations From Hell (2001) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003). He has also appeared in prominent roles in both theatre and television in the UK. Flemyng can speak reasonable French, and has made three films in that language. He won the Best Actor Award at the Geneva Film Festival for his role in 1996's Alive and Kicking.
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Joung Tae-choon
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Joung Tae-choon is a South Korean singer-songwriter, poet, cultural activist, and social activist who has pursued a "Korean folk." He is called Korea's leading minstrel because he writes his own lyrics that encompass both lyricism and sociality and publishes his work in a natural melody that incorporates Korean traditional music characteristics. Joung Tae-choon's activities, who is not only a musical activity but also an activist who is passionately devoted to various cultural and social movements, led to the Constitutional Court's decision to unconstitutional music pre-deliberation in 1996 by launching the "Music Pre-deliberation Movement" in the early 1990s.
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Faye Dunaway
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Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress. She is the recipient of such accolades as an Academy Award, three Golden Globes, and a British Academy Film Award.
Her career began in the early 1960s on Broadway. She made her screen debut in the 1967 film The Happening, and rose to fame that same year with her portrayal of outlaw Bonnie Parker in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination. Her most notable films include the crime caper The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), the drama The Arrangement (1969), the revisionist western Little Big Man (1970), an adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic The Three Musketeers (1973), the neo-noir mystery Chinatown (1974), for which she earned her second Oscar nomination, the action-drama disaster The Towering Inferno (1974), the political thriller Three Days of the Condor (1975), the satire Network (1976), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress, and the thriller Eyes of Laura Mars (1978).
Her career evolved to more mature and character roles in subsequent years, often in independent films, beginning with her controversial portrayal of Joan Crawford in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest. Other notable films in which she has appeared include Barfly (1987), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Arizona Dream (1994), Don Juan DeMarco (1995), The Twilight of the Golds (1997), Gia (1998) and The Rules of Attraction (2002). Dunaway also performed on stage in several plays including A Man for All Seasons (1961–63), After the Fall (1964), Hogan's Goat (1965–67), A Streetcar Named Desire (1973) and was awarded the Sarah Siddons Award for her portrayal of opera singer Maria Callas in Master Class (1996).
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Isiah Whitlock Jr.
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Isiah Whitlock Jr. (born September 13, 1954) is an American actor. He is most famous for his role on the HBO television series, The Wire as corrupt state senator Clay Davis. In 2011, Whitlock played an insurance agent named Ronald Wilkes in the film Cedar Rapids. Wilkes is a self-described fan of The Wire and does an impersonation of character Omar Little. Whitlock has said that the references to the series were written in before he became involved in Cedar Rapids.
He is also notable for appearing in Spike Lee films She Hate Me and 25th Hour as Agent Amos Flood. In all three projects, Whitlock established a catchphrase from his characters' distinct pronunciation of the word "shit" ("sheee-it").
He appeared as Eugine, a supporting role, in the 2003 film Pieces of April. He had a bit part in Goodfellas as a doctor who gives Henry Hill a Valium while attending to his brother. In 2007, he played Ethan Banks in Enchanted.
Whitlock has made appearances on Chappelle's Show and has played various characters on Law & Order and its' spinoff, Law & Order: SVU. He also appears in promotional spots for the Wii video game Punch-Out!! portraying the character Doc Louis.
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Tiny Sandford
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Stanley J. "Tiny" Sandford (February 26, 1894 – October 29, 1961) was a tall, burly actor who is best remembered for his roles in Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin films. He was usually cast as a comic heavy, and often played policemen, doormen, prizefighters, or bullies.
Sandford was born in Osage, Iowa. After working in stock theater he began acting in movies around 1910. He appeared in The Gold Rush with Charlie Chaplin, who became one of his best friends. His Charlie Chaplin movies include The Circus (1928) and Modern Times (1936), where he plays "Big Bill". His films with Laurel and Hardy include Big Business (1929), Double Whoopee (1929), The Chimp (1932), and Our Relations (1936). Sandford also acted in Way Out West, but his sequence was cut from the final take.
He also appeared in dramas such as The World's Champion (1922) and The Iron Mask (1929).
He retired from acting in 1940, the year he had a very small role Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator. He died in Los Angeles, California on October 29, 1961.
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Colm Feore
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Colm Joseph Feore OC (/ˈkɒləm ˈfjɔːr/; born August 22, 1958) is a Canadian actor. A 15-year veteran of the Stratford Festival, he is known for his Gemini-winning turn as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau in the CBC miniseries Trudeau (2002), his portrayal of Glenn Gould in Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993), and for playing Detective Martin Ward in Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) and its sequel Bon Cop, Bad Cop 2 (2017).
His other roles include Martin Harrison in Chicago (2002), Lord Marshal Zhylaw in The Chronicles of Riddick (2004), First Gentleman Henry Taylor on 24 (2009), Cardinal Della Rovere on The Borgias (2011–2013), Laufey in Thor (2011), General Ted Brockhart on House of Cards (2016–2017), Declan Gallard on 21 Thunder (2017), Wernher von Braun in For All Mankind (2019), and Sir Reginald Hargreeves on The Umbrella Academy (2019–present). Feore is also a Prix Iris and Screen Actors Guild Award winner and a Genie Award nominee.
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