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Athena Massey

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Athena Massey (born 10 November 1971 in Orange, California) is an American actress. She made her screen debut as a murder victim in Steven Seagal's 1991 action film Out for Justice. During her career Massey has mainly starred in B movies and erotic thrillers including Poison Ivy: The New Seduction, Undercover Heat and the cable TV series Red Shoe Diaries. However, she has also appeared in more mainstream fare, including small roles in 1996's The Nutty Professor, Molly and the TV shows Seinfeld, Star Trek: Voyager and Nash Bridges. Her most recent acting credit involved playing Lieutenant Eva Lee as both an in-game voice and in the cut scenes of Westwood Studios' real time strategy game Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and the expansion pack Yuri's Revenge in 2001. She previously played a role in 1999's Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun. Description above from the Wikipedia article Athena Massey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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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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Tommy Hinkley

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hinkley's on-screen career now spans more than 20 years, and since the beginning it has been supplemented by a heavy dose of television guest roles, and periodic regular turns on TV series. He has also been known for his roles in such popular box office draws as The Cable Guy (1996), Ocean's Thirteen (2007) and Leatherheads (2008). Hinkley is a close friend of George Clooney both on and off-camera, and they have appeared in several projects together. Hinkley married actress Tracey Needham in January 1995, and they have one daughter, Katie, born in 1998. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tommy Hinkley, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Grace Bradley

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A petite and extremely lovely blonde "B" film actress who eventually deserted her career in favor of standing by her man (cowboy icon William Boyd, aka, "Hopalong Cassidy"), Grace Bradley spent the rest of her life in his shadow and devoting herself to her husband's career. Bill's Hoppy was the longest span of any fictional character played by the same actor. Following his death in 1972, she spent a good deal of her time keeping his good name and image in tact. Grace initially studied to be a concert pianist, playing Carngie Hall at age 15. She also took advantage of her budding loveliness by modeling full time and taking singing/dancing lessons on the sly. She went on to act, sing, and dance on the Broadway stage in the musicals "Strike Me Pink" and "The Little Show". While performing at the Paradise nightclub in Manhattan in 1933, the dancer was "discovered" and signed by a Paramount Pictures director. Heading west, she often came off as an assertive "bad girl" or femme-fatale at Paramount with such fun, party-girl names as Goldie, Trixie, Flossie, Lily and Sadie. Her first full-length movie was as a second lead in the Bing Crosby/Jack Oakie musical comedy Too Much Harmony (1933), in which she sang and danced to the feisty tune "Cradle Me With a Hotcha Lullaby". She subsequently appeared in the W.C. Fields classic Six of a Kind (1934); the Richard Arlen pictures Come On, Marines! (1934) and She Made Her Bed (1934); the Claudette Colbert/Fred MacMurray comedy The Gilded Lily (1935), and had the female lead opposite Bruce Cabot in Redhead (1934). Appearing secondary in the Bing Crosby/Ethel Merman version of Anything Goes (1936), her musical talents were tapped into with the films The Cat's-Paw (1934), Stolen Harmony (1935), Old Man Rhythm (1935), Sitting on the Moon (1936) and Wake Up and Live (1937). Elsewhere, various "B" male co-stars would include Wallace Ford, Lee Tracy, Jack Haley, John Boles, Robert Livingston, Jack Holt and Robert Armstrong. In 1937, Grace happened to cross paths with Bill Boyd, who became her "Prince Charming on a big white horse". She had a long-time school-girl crush on Boyd and was instantly smitten upon their first meeting. He was 42 and she 23. He asked her to marry him within a few days and they were married three weeks later on June 5th. Boyd had already been married four times, none lasting longer than six years. Grace would become the fifth (and last) Mrs. William Boyd in a marriage that lasted 35 years. The couple had no children together; Bill had one child from his third marriage. William Lawrence Boyd retired from show business in 1953 quite wealthy. Suffering from Parkinson's disease, he died of heart failure in Laguna Beach in 1972 at age 77. Grace went on to spend the last decades of her life devoting herself to volunteer work at the Laguna Beach hospital where her husband lived out his final days. She later withstood legal battles that stemmed from copyright infringements, but enjoyed appearing occasionally at Hopalong Cassidy tributes. The definitive biography Hopalong Cassidy - An American Legend was co-authored by Grace and Michael Cochran in 2008. Grace Bradley Boyd died,  21 September 2010, Dana Point, California. of complications from old age at age 97 on her birthday; and she was interred next to her husband at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Clendale, California.
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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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Spike Jonze

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Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel; October 22, 1969) is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation., and for his work as director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv. He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. He also co-founded Directors Label with filmmakers Chris Cunningham and Michel Gondry. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spike Jonze, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dax Ravina

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Dax Ravina was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he studied sociology and criminology at Saint Mary's University. He joined the university drama society and was cast in his first play-A Streetcar Named Desire playing the lead role of Stanley Kowalski. He then went on to study acting at the prestigious Ryerson Theatre School in Toronto. Dax was cast in his first feature film Wisegirls by director David Anspaugh (Rudy, Hoosiers). He was the lead in the award winning short film Backjumping which turned into a CBC pilot called Cheap Draft directed by Jay Dahl. Dax has been fortunate to work with Hollywood heavyweights Kurt Russell (The Art of The Steal) Tim Roth (The Padre) Taryn Manning (Weirdsville) Terrance Howard (Four Brothers) Matt Dillon (The Art of the Steal) and Ron Perlman (The Baker). He has appeared in 6 feature films produced by Los Angeles-Toronto based production company Darius Films (Nicholas Tabarrok ,Leah Jaunzems) two of those include The Retirement Plan starring Nicholas Cage and The Blue Iguana starring the late Bob Saget, filmed in Grand Cayman. He recently appeared in Shudder's hit resurrected franchise feature VHS94 and has a recurring role on the hit Netflix series Trailer Park Boys as Officer Gordon. Dax currently travels between Los Angeles and Toronto. He is represented by Nigel Mikoski with Connekt Creative Agency in Vancouver.
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Peggy Lee

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Peggy Lee was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer and actress, in a career spanning six decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local radio to singing with Benny Goodman's big band, she forged a sophisticated persona, evolving into a multi-faceted artist and performer. She wrote music for films, acted, and created conceptual record albums—encompassing poetry, jazz, chamber pop, and art songs. In 1952 Lee starred in The Jazz Singer, a Technicolor remake of the early Al Jolson part-talkie 1927 film of the same name. In 1955, she played an alcoholic blues singer in Pete Kelly's Blues, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. In 1955 Lee did the speaking and singing voices for several characters in Disney's Lady and the Tramp: she played the human "Darling", the dog "Peg", and the two Siamese cats "Si and Am". In 1957, Lee guest starred on the short-lived ABC variety program, The Guy Mitchell Show.
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Frank De Kova

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Frank DeKova parlayed a sinister scowl, piercing eyes and an all-around menacing attitude into a long career of playing cold-blooded trigger-men, rampaging Indian chiefs, brutal Mexican army officers and the like. So it would probably come as a shock to those who know his work to discover that, before he became an actor, he was--of all things--a schoolteacher. Born in New York in 1910, DeKova gave up teaching for the stage, and played in many Shakespearean productions before getting work on Broadway. One of his first starring roles was in the classic detective play "Detective Story", which got him noticed and brought to Hollywood. He debuted in Viva Zapata! (1952) as the devious Mexican colonel who sets up Zapata's assassination. For the next several years he played an assortment of gangsters, killers, gunfighters and Indians--with time out to play a prehistoric patriarch in Roger Corman's campy Teenage Cave Man (1958)--and did much television work, including a standout job as a Mafia hit-man assigned to kill Elliot Ness in Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: The Untouchables: Part 1 (1959). The role for which he will be most remembered, however, is probably the one that was his most atypical: the scheming, somewhat untrustworthy but very funny Hekawi Chief Wild Eagle, the partner to Forrest Tucker's Sgt. O'Rourke in O'Rourke's various schemes to make money, in the western comedy series F Troop (1965). He showed a previously unknown talent for comedy and managed to steal most of the scenes he was in from such veterans as Tucker and Larry Storch. He died in his sleep in 1981.
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Anthony Hopkins

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Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE (born December 31, 1937) is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards and a British Academy Television Award. He has also received an honorary Golden Globe Award and the BAFTA Fellowship from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. In 1993, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to the arts, and in 2003, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in the motion picture industry. After graduating from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 1957, Hopkins trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, and was then spotted by Laurence Olivier who invited him to join the Royal National Theatre in 1965. Productions at the National included King Lear, his favourite Shakespeare play. His last stage play was a West End production of M. Butterfly in 1989. In 1968, Hopkins achieved recognition in film, playing Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter. In the mid-1970s, Richard Attenborough, who directed five Hopkins films, called him "the greatest actor of his generation." In 1991, he portrayed Hannibal Lecter in the psychological horror film The Silence of the Lambs, winning the Academy Award for Best Actor. He reprised the role in its sequel Hannibal and the prequel Red Dragon. Other notable films include The Elephant Man (1980), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), Howards End (1992), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Shadowlands (1993), Legends of the Fall (1994), Meet Joe Black (1998), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Thor (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), and Thor: Ragnarok (2017). He received four more Academy Award nominations for The Remains of the Day (1993), Nixon (1995), Amistad (1997) and The Two Popes (2019) before winning a fourth BAFTA Award and a second Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of an elderly man diagnosed with dementia in The Father (2020), becoming the oldest Best Actor Oscar winner to date. Since making his television debut with the BBC in 1967, Hopkins has continued to appear on television. In 1973 he received a British Academy Television Award for Best Actor for his performance in War and Peace. In 2015, he starred in the BBC film The Dresser alongside Ian McKellen. In 2018, he starred in King Lear opposite Emma Thompson. In 2016 and 2018, he starred in the HBO television series Westworld, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Hopkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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