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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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K P Ummer

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K. P. Ummer is the stage name of Snehajaan who was a Indian Malayalam cinema actor from Thekkepuram quarter of Kozhikode, Kerala, India. He was active in cinema from early sixties until late nineties. He was born to T.Mohamed koya and Beevi on 11 October 1934 in Calicut. His first film was Rarichan Enna Pauran (1956). He frequently played the villain opposite Prem Nazir, who played the hero. Ummer was also a character artist in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 1967, he did his first character role in the film Udhyogastha directed by P. Venu. Later he had worked in many of his films. Ummer was a professional drama actor of K.P.A.C. and other troupes.He was a brilliant football player. K. P. Ummer was the first actor in Kerala to turn down a state government award. The K.P. Ummer Anusmarana Samithi created an award instituted in his memory for the people who contribute to Malayalam movies
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Allyce Beasley

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Allyce Beasley (née Tannenberg) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as rhyming, love-struck receptionist Agnes DiPesto in the television series Moonlighting. From 2001 to 2007, she was the announcer on Playhouse Disney, a morning lineup of programming for toddlers on Disney Channel. She appeared briefly as a guidance counselor in the comedy film Legally Blonde and played Coach's daughter, Lisa Pantusso, on Cheers. She also announced the safety video during The Simpsons Ride at Universal Studios Hollywood and Florida.
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Mel Lisboa

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Mel Lisboa Alves is a Brazilian actress and presenter. She became known for the character Anita of Anita's Presence. became known for playing the title character in the miniseries Presença de Anita (2001). Biography She is the daughter of astrologer Cláudia Lisboa Alves and musician Bebeto Alves . She is the cousin of comedian Rafinha Bastos . She studied cinema at the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), in Niterói , but dropped out of the course to pursue a career as an actress. She is not directly related to the Gaucho musician Nei Lisboa . [ 2 ] In 2009, the actress declared that she was an atheist in an interview with Tpm magazine. Career She debuted as an actress in 2001, starring in the Rede Globo miniseries , Presença de Anita , playing Anita, a mysterious and seductive young woman. [ 4 ] Due to her character's great sexual appeal, she participated in a sensual shoot for the website Paparazzo . The miniseries earned an average of 30 ratings and was rebroadcast in full in 2002 on TV Globo. In 2002, in the soap opera Escolhas de Mulher , she played Gabriela, a young woman from the countryside and aspiring model. This time her character was not as successful, due to the fixed image of the previous character and the plot's low ratings. The actress, at the time, even realized that she had been dazzled after playing a prominent role, but after playing another with little acceptance, she matured. In 2003, he did his second sensual shoot. This time for Trip magazine . The following year she posed nude for the Brazilian edition of Playboy magazine , in its 29th anniversary edition. In the same year, after having signed a contract with SBT , the contract did not go through, she returned to Rede Globo and acted in the soap opera Como uma Onda , playing Lenita Paiva, a rich and spoiled girl. In 2006, she became a television presenter on the GNT /Rede Globo Sat channel and released the book Mundo Afora — Diário de Bordo de Mel Lisboa , [ 6 ] with the plot and photographs of her program. In 2007, she participated in the cast of the soap opera Sete Pecados , in which she played the character Carla, a young woman of humble origins and extremely ambitious with her dubious personality. On April 1 , 2010 , she signed a contract with Rede Record [ 7 ] and the following year she starred in the miniseries Sansão e Dalila , playing Dalila , a seductive woman with a dubious character. Still in 2011, she participated in two more sensual shoots: In Inked magazine , she shows her tattoos and talks about her passion for them. In Maxim magazine , she shows that the lolita phase is literally behind her. She won some awards in her career, including the most important national cinema award, the Kikito , at the Gramado Festival , as best actress for her performance in Sonhos e Deseios , in 2006. In cinema, she participated in films such as A Fortune Teller ( The Fortune Teller ). 2003), The Wedding of Romeo and Juliet (2005), Dreams and Desires (2006), and Live (2008). In theater he participated in plays such as Há Vaga Para Moças de Fino Trato (2002), Confessões de Adolescente (2003), Brutal (2003), Luluzinhas (2003), Biting the Lips (2006), A Mulher do Candidato (2008), Cyrano (2009), After the Rain (2010) and Altered Women (2010/2011). In October 2012, she was hospitalized with an intestinal virus and had to cancel the show.
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José Miguel Agrelot

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Giuseppe Michel Agrelot (April 21, 1927 - San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 28, 2004) known as José Miguel Agrelot or Don Cholito was a popular comedian and radio and television presenter from Puerto Rico. Agrelot was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico of Italian descent.2 3 He was the third of four children of Felipe Agrelot and Ana Luisa Vilá; his sister Ana Mercedes, later also became a part-time comedy actress. He started working at radio stations when he was 14 years old. At that time, he was an employee of the radio businessman Tomás Muñiz, then general manager of WIAC-AM and father of the then producer and actor Tommy Muñiz. During this period Agrelot developed his first comic character, Torito Fuertes, a mischievous eight-year-old boy for a family comedy program sponsored by Borden, Inc. and evaporated suleche (the name Torito Fuertes was a pun with "strong stingray", a desirable consequence of drinking good milk). Later, the character took his own life in a radio program first called Professor Colgate (sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive's flagship toothpaste) and then called El Colegio de la Alegría (The School of Joy). This program introduced Tommy Muñiz as the school teacher of a rather dysfunctional classroom.
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Jonah Hill

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Jonah Hill Feldstein (born December 20, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for his comedic roles in films including Superbad (2007), Knocked Up (2007), 21 Jump Street (2012), This Is the End (2013), and 22 Jump Street (2014). For his performances in Moneyball (2011) and The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Hill ranked 28th on Forbes magazine's list of highest-paid actors from June 2014 to June 2015, at $16 million. In 2020, he was found to have sworn on film more than any other actor. As a screenwriter, he contributed to the stories of 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street, Sausage Party and Why Him? In 2018, he starred in the Netflix dark comedy miniseries Maniac and made his directorial debut with the film Mid90s. He also wrote the screenplay for Mid90s. Hill has provided voices for the animated films Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Megamind (2010), How to Train Your Dragon (2010–2019), The Lego Movie (2014), and The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019).
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Ryou Horikawa

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Horikawa Ryou is a veteran voice actor born on February 1, 1958 in Osaka, Japan. He is married to fellow voice actress Oikawa Hitomi, whose natal name is also Horikawa. His former stage name was also Horikawa Ryou, albeit written 堀川亮 (same as his given name, Horikawa Makoto, but pronounced as Ryo). He changed the writing of his name to the present on April 3, 2001. He is the current representative director of talent agency Aslead Company. Horikawa started out as a child actor in elementary school. He made his debut in voice acting as the protagonist of the 1984 anime Yume Senshi Wingman. From there, he became famous for his roles as Andromeda Shun in Saint Seiya, Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z, Heiji Hattori (Harley Hartwell) in Detective Conan (Case Closed), and Reinhard in Legend of the Galactic Heroes. During his early years as voice actor he belonged to Aoni Production and later アーク・ライツ before joining with Aslead Company where he became representative director.
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Willy Holt

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Willy Holt (30 November 1921 – 22 June 2007) was an American production designer, art director and actor who lived in France for many years. He was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Art Direction for the film Is Paris Burning?, and won a César Award for Best Production Design for Au revoir, les enfants. Willy Holt was born in Quincy, Florida, in 1921, the son of an American military photographer and his French wife. After his parents divorced his mother returned with him to her home country, where he was naturalised as a French citizen in 1923. He graduated with a baccalauréat from the Lycée Fermat in Toulouse during the early years of the Occupation. Holt was married for four years to the actress Micheline Bourday, subsequently marrying the actress Martine Pascal in 1958. He and Pascal had two children. Holt was a member of the French Resistance and was arrested at Grenoble railway station in December 1943 while transferring money on behalf of anti-Nazi Resistance fighters. He was interned at Auschwitz, via the Drancy internment camp. He survived the death march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, where he was one of those liberated on 13 April 1945. Holt wrote about his wartime experiences in his 1995 book Femmes en deuil sur camion. After briefly working as a fashion designer, Holt was hired to work in television in 1946. His set designs for several television shows led to further work in cinema, initially as an art director. As befitted his Franco-American origins, Holt worked on several productions in both countries, collaborating with a number of internationally renowned film directors such as John Frankenheimer, Stanley Donen, Otto Preminger, Robert Parrish, Fred Zinnemann, Bertrand Blier, Woody Allen, Michael Ritchie, Louis Malle and Roman Polanski. Source: Article "Willy Holt" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Kerry Condon

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Kerry Condon (born January 9, 1983) is an Irish actress. She was the youngest actress to play Ophelia in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet (2001–2002). She has since played Octavia of the Julii in Rome (2005–2007), Stacey Ehrmantraut in Better Call Saul (2015–2022), and has voiced the artificial intelligence entity F.R.I.D.A.Y. in various films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Condon has collaborated with Martin McDonagh in the plays The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001) and The Cripple of Inishmaan (2009), and the films Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022). For her performance in the lattermost, she received nominations for the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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Amber Heard

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Amber Laura Heard (born April 22, 1986) is an American film and television actress. After a series of small roles in film and television, Heard had her first starring role in the horror film All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006). She first gained mainstream recognition for supporting roles in the action film Never Back Down (2008) and the comedy Pineapple Express (2008). In the following years, she appeared in films such as The Joneses (2009), The Ward (2010), The Rum Diary (2011), Drive Angry (2011), Machete Kills (2013) and Magic Mike XXL (2015). In 2017, Heard joined the DC Extended Universe to play Atlantean queen Mera in superhero films Justice League (2017), Aquaman (2018), and Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021). In addition to acting, Heard has been a global spokesperson for the cosmetics giant L'Oréal Paris since 2018. She also engages in human rights activism.
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