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Elizabeth Aguilar

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She studied drama and philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and accumulated knowledge in music theory and singing. In addition, she perfected her jazz, tap and classical dance movements for three years at Emma Pulido's studio. Elizabeth's beauty allowed her to participate in the 1977 Miss Mexico pageant, where she won second place and gave her the opportunity to represent Mexico in the Miss World contest held that same year. Although she was among the 15 finalists, the young woman caught the attention of the producers who called her to be part of their projects. Months after being part of the contests, Aguilar made her debut in the program 'Variedades de media noche' where figures such as Carmen Salinas, Lyn May, Rosy Mendoza, among many other beautiful vedettes of the 70's appeared. The young promise jumped to the big screen only two years later, as she appeared in the movie 'El vuelo de la Cigüeña', a film that brought her other projects such as 'Amor a la mexicana', 'No vale nada la vida', 'Bonampak' and 'Mariana, Mariana', based on the novel 'Las batallas en el desierto' by José Emilio Pacheco and that gave her a nomination for the Ariel award in 1988. In television she participated in the melodramas 'Tania', 'Amor ajeno' and 'Entre el amor y el odio', as well as in programs such as 'Sábado loco, loco', 'No empujen' and '¿Qué nos pasa?'. Along with her career as an actress, she released two albums as a singer: 'Elizabeth Aguilar' in 1989 and 'Ahhrebatadora' revealed in 1991, proving that she was a complete artist. Isela Vega, was the first Latin American woman to appear in Playboy magazine in the United States, however, Elizabeth Aguilar, was the first Mexican woman to pose in the Aztec edition. In 1984, the "Bunny" caused great controversy and furor with her cover in that publication, becoming one of the biggest sex symbols of that decade.
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Richard Swann

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Richard Allen Swann is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Impact Wrestling. He is a former one-time Impact World Champion, former one-time TNA World Heavyweight Champion and a former one-time Impact X Division Champion. Swann is also known for his time in WWE, where he performed under the name Rich Swann, which is his ring name today. In WWE, he is a former WWE Cruiserweight Champion. Additionally, Swann has competed for promotions such as Full Impact Pro, Evolve, Pro Wrestling Guerrilla (PWG), Chikara, Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW), Dragon Gate and Major League Wrestling (MLW). He is a former RevPro British Tag Team Champion, FIP World Heavyweight Champion, FIP Tag Team Champion, Open the United Gate, Open the Owarai Gate and Open the Triangle Gate Champion. In 2018, Swann signed with Impact Wrestling winning the Impact X Division Championship and later winning the Impact World Championship becoming the second African-American to hold that championship (after Bobby Lashley) and the third African-American world champion in the history of the company after Ron Killings and Bobby Lashley. In 2021, Swann would unify the Impact World Championship and the TNA World Heavyweight Championship. Overall, Swann is a five-time world champion in wrestling.
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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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Nancy Sivak

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Nancy Sivak, a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, originally wanted to be a dancer before discovering the theatre. After studying and working in Edmonton and Los Angeles for several years, she returned to Canada to settle in Vancouver, where she has worked steadily in film, television and on the stage. Her credits include the B.C. Motion Picture Association Leo Award-winning short film, The Love Charm, which she worked on with Babz Chula. They would also work together in Dirty, directed by Bruce Sweeney. Nancy has won Leo and Jesse awards for her work as an actor. 
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Billy Merasty

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Billy Merasty is an actor, playwright, Cree translator, and language keeper. He was born to Viola and Pierre Merasty in 1960 in Brochet, Manitoba. His grandfather was Joe Highway, a famous caribou hunter and champion dogsled racer. He moved to Toronto at age eighteen in search for his uncle René Highway, who was at the time working for the Toronto Dance Theatre. At age twenty-three Billy launched his acting career after graduating from the Native Theatre School for aspiring Indigenous artists. He then went on to work for the renowned Indigenous performing arts company Native Earth Performing Arts. Billy has worked as a film, television, and stage actor for decades and notably played the first Indigenous gay character on television on the CBC series, Liberty Street, in the role of Nathan. Billy received the Order of Manitoba (Order of the Buffalo Hunt) in recognition for his many years as an Indigenous role model in 2010.
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Éric Salvail

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Éric Salvail is a Canadian former radio and television personality, producer and host in Quebec. In 2014, he founded "Salvail & Co. Productions". In 2017, 11 people divulged allegations of sexual misconduct against Salvail in an article published in the Montreal daily La Presse. The alleged conduct spanned a 15-year period. Salvail sold most of his business concerns as a result, including his company on 24 October 2017, with many media outlets associated with his shows discontinuing his shows.
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Leyla Badirbeyli

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Leyla Javanshirova was born on 8 January 1920 in Baku, in the family of Aghalar Badirbeyov, from the generation of Shamkir beys. In 1936, she became the soloist of the Song and Dance Ensemble of Azerbaijan, where she worked up until 1942. In 1942, on guidance of the Azerbaijan State Drama Theatre, named after Meshadi Azizbeyov's invitation, she began to perform on the stage of this theatre. In 1945, Badirbeyli played Gulchohra's part from "The Cloth Peddler" musical comedy. Henceforth she played memorable roles in such films as "Fatali khan", "The Meeting", "Shadows are crawling", "Her Great Heart", "Koroghlu", "The Tempestuous Kura", "Sevil", "Boys of our street", "One fine day", "The Dervish Detonates Paris" etc. In 1951, Leyla Badirbeyli graduated from Azerbaijan State Theatrical Institute named after M.A.Aliyev. The actress died on 23 November 1999.
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Angelo Rinaldi

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Angelo Rinaldi (born 17 June 1940) is a French writer and literary critic. Rinaldi is the son of Pierre-François Rinaldi and Antoinette Pietri; after growing up in Corsica he became a journalist. He initially worked as a reporter and court correspondent for the newspapers Nice-Matin and Paris-Jour and soon acquired a reputation as a writer and a sharp-penned literary critic. As a critic, he worked for L'Express, Le Point and Le Nouvel Observateur before becoming literary editor of Le Figaro, which he remained until his retirement. Rinaldi is Corsican, and his books often contain detailed observations of Corsica and of the town of Bastia where he grew up. He has received the Prix Pierre de Monaco for his body of work. He was elected to Seat 20 of the Académie Française on 21 June 2001, succeeding José Cabanis. Source: Article "Angelo Rinaldi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Michelle Williams

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Tenitra Michelle Williams (born July 23, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. She rose to fame in the 2000s as a member of R&B girl group Destiny's Child, one of the best-selling female groups of all time with over 60 million records, of which more than 35 million copies sold with the trio lineup that included Williams. During the group's two-year hiatus, 2001–2003, Williams released her debut solo album Heart to Yours (2002) which topped the US gospel album chart and became the best-selling gospel release of the year. Also in 2002, Billboard named Williams the fifth-best gospel artist of the year and she received a MOBO Award for "Best Gospel Act". Following this, she released Do You Know (2004) which gained her a nomination for "Best Gospel Act" at the 2004 MOBO Awards. After Destiny's Child's disbanded in 2006, Williams released her first pop album, Unexpected (2008), which spawned the internationally charting single "We Break the Dawn" and the US Dance number-one "The Greatest". Her fourth studio album, Journey to Freedom (2014), received positive reviews and became her highest-charting album in the US; it was preceded by lead single "If We Had Your Eyes" which reached the US Adult R&B top 20 and the Soul Train-nominated "Say Yes", which charted internationally and topped the US Hot Gospel Songs chart for seven weeks. Journey to Freedom was nominated for "Outstanding Gospel Album (Traditional or Contemporary)" at the 46th NAACP Image Awards and earned Williams four nominations at the 30th annual Stellar Awards, winning Music Video of the Year for "Say Yes". Williams has found success as a television, Broadway and West End theatre actress, gaining a nomination for "Best Lead Female – Equity" in 2008 at the 18th Annual NAACP Theatre Awards. Making her acting debut on Broadway in Aida (2003), she has since starred in the sitcom series Half & Half (2006) and the musical productions The Color Purple (2007), Chicago (2009–10), What My Husband Doesn't Know (2011) and Fela! (2013). She was a featured judge on MTV's Top Pop Group, a contestant in season 8 of Strictly Come Dancing in the United Kingdom and co-starred alongside gospel musician Deitrick Haddon in the Oxygen reality television series Fix My Choir. She has also appeared on both the American and British versions of The Masked Singer as "Butterfly" and "Rockhopper" respectively. She has earned several awards and accolades including a Grammy Award and star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as part of Destiny's Child, as well as a solo MOBO Award and Stellar Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Williams (singer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Jeanne Eagels

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Born into a poor family in Kansas, Eagles ran off to join a traveling theatrical company at age 12, landed in New York, remade herself, became a chorine and a Ziegfeld Girl, studied acting and became a sought after theatrical name. As her heavy schedule – which soon included silent films – began to weigh on her, she self-medicated with pills, alcohol and possibly harder stuff. Soon, after dozens of successful roles, she became a Broadway super-star playing Sadie Thompson in Somerset Maugham’s “Rain.” As her fame increased, so did her reputation for temperamental behavior and even unreliability. She died on the night of October 3, 1929, aged 39. Her death was variously attributed to alcohol, sleeping pills and heroin.
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