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Jazzmun

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Originally from San Diego, California, Jazzmun made her first national television appearance on the 1980s talent variety show Puttin' on the Hits (1984), in which she split her body half in male drag and half in female drag, lip-synching as a "duet". Finding work immediately after that appearance for her theatrical and modeling talents, she moved to Los Angeles and secured an agent. Since then Jazzmun has performed all over the world as her stage character "Jazzmun", her trademark "Whitney Houston", "Grace Jones", or any number of other characters. Drag icon RuPaul hired Jazzmun to perform in his music video "A Little Bit Of Love", which spoofed drag queens as aliens out to conquer the world. Jazzmun has proven to be a consummate performer and, when not appearing on television or stage, can be seen in a variety of Los Angeles nightclubs promoting her talents in a variety of ways.
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Fraser Clarke Heston

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Fraser Clarke Heston (born February 12, 1955 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, film producer, screenwriter and actor. The son of actors Charlton Heston and Lydia Clarke, Fraser Clarke Heston was born in Los Angeles, California. Fraser Heston's filmography includes Alaska and the 1990 version of Treasure Island which cast his father as Long John Silver. As a child, he also appeared as the infant Moses (his father played the grown Moses) in the Cecil B. DeMille epic The Ten Commandments. While in the process of writing Wind River, a romantic adventure novel about 19th-century fur trappers, Fraser was convinced by producer Martin Shafer to turn the story into a film script. Discovering that film-writing came naturally for him, 22-year-old Fraser wrote his first screenplay, The Mountain Men, for Columbia Pictures, which became the feature film. Description above from the Wikipedia article Fraser Clarke Heston, 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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Pat Laffan

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Pat Laffan was an Irish actor best known for his roles as Georgie Burgess in The Snapper and the milkman Pat Mustard in the Father Ted episode Speed 3. Laffan grew up on a farm in Co. Meath and began his career as an actor after graduating from Engineering in UCD. A prolific theatre actor, Laffan was a member of the Abbey Theatre Company in the 1960s and 1970s, and was the Director of the Peacock Theatre for most of the 1970s. He directed in the Gate Theatre from 1979 to 1982. Laffan had around 40 film credits to his name - including turns in Steven Spielberg's War Horse (2011), Intermission (2003), The General (1998) and Leap Year (2010) - and 30 credits on TV, Moone Boy, EastEnders and Ripper Street, to name a few. He died on March 14th, 2019 at the age of 79.
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Ratchanok Saeng-Chuto

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Ratchanok Saeng-Chuto is a Thai actress, born in Bangkok as an only child. She studied in kindergarten at Sirintra Kindergarten, Primary at Patnawit School and Secondary at Sai Nam Phueng School. Studied at the higher education level at the Faculty of Humanities Ramkhamhaeng University, but after two and a half years of study, she did not continue his studies. She started in the entertainment industry by modeling in Piew magazine, featured on the cover. After that, she began to test in front of the camera commercials. However, she was considered a very small model, only 165 cm tall. She is married to Watatchai Saeng-Chuto and has 2 sons.
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Jason Tisi

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Jason Tisi was born in upstate, New York. He has also resided in southern California, Europe, Boston, and now Central Florida. Jason has been in the performance arts since early childhood, playing trumpet professionally for many years starting at age 15 and now plays the ukulele. He has worked in television and radio broadcasting being the eye-in-the-sky as a former NBC New England affiliate traffic reporter as well as radio news anchor and alternative rock disc jockey. Jason's voice has been heard on several radio and television commercials and he played a recurring character on the nationally syndicated radio show, Mancow's Morning Madhouse on Q101 out of Chicago. His television appearances include several small bits episodes of the late Glen Larson production, 'Nightman', where he was often seen as a bartender. Jason also appeared in several episodes of the hit USA Network series 'Silk Stalkings' as a Coroner's Assistant and starred in season 1 of the Time Warner Cable comedy series, 'The House'. However, while filming on location for Silk Stalkings, Jason saw a car stunt and shifted gears himself and added precision and stunt driving to his actor tool box. As a race car driver he was behind the wheel of the #21 Monte Carlo SS in the Pure Stock Division at the NASCAR Home Track, Seekonk Speedway in Massachusetts. Jason has appeared in several MTV, BET, and World Star Hip Hop music videos, including Monty, Remy Boyz & the Zoo Gang, Machine Gun Kelly, Chris Webby, Joyner Lucas, Chief Keef, Shy Glizzy ft. Plies, Token, Prince Smooth, and more. Jason works on both Hollywood and independent films. In early 2018, he finished his first feature length screenplay, and has another in the works. He's also a graduate of the Harley Davidson Riding Academy and rides a 2018 Harley Davidson Sport Glide.
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Michelle Rhee

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michelle A. Rhee (born December 25, 1969) is the former chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools system of Washington, D.C., in the United States. In 1997 she founded The New Teacher Project (TNTP), which in ten years has recruited 10,000 teachers in twenty states. She announced her resignation as chancellor on October 13, 2010, effective at the end of the month. Rhee is the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, a 501(c)(4) political advocacy organization which works on education reform issues. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michelle Rhee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Kyoko Tongu

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Kyōko Miyagi (宮城 恭子 Miyagi Kyōko, born October 11, 1955 in Okayama, Japan), usually credited as Kyōko Tongū (頓宮 恭子 Tongū Kyōko), is a Japanese voice actress who retired for a time in 1992, when her husband was transferred to Milan, Italy. She returned to Japan and voice work there late in the same decade, now chiefly involved with dubbing of foreign movies and television programs. Her most recent anime work has been for Mermaid Forest and Star Fox: Assault. During her earlier career, she was best known for her voice of Kei in Dirty Pair and Nakamura in Black Magic M-66. Her last regular role before her brief retirement was as the voice of Kikunosuke Abashiri in Abashiri Family. She is still currently active through her agency, Aoni Production. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mindy Kaling

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Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), known professionally as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, and writer. She rose to prominence in 2005 for her work on the NBC sitcom The Office, where she portrayed Kelly Kapoor and served as a writer, executive producer, and occasional director throughout most of the series' run. Kaling created, wrote, produced, and starred in the Fox/Hulu sitcom The Mindy Project, which ran for six seasons from 2012 to 2017. Kailing's film career includes voice work in the films Despicable Me (2010), Wreck It Ralph (2012), Inside Out (2015) and starring roles in the fantasy adventure A Wrinkle in Time and heist-comedy Ocean's 8, both 2018. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mindy Kaling, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Art Metrano

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Arthur "Art" Metrano (September 22, 1936 – September 8, 2021) was an American actor and comedian, born in Brooklyn, New York City. Metrano may be best known for his role as Lt./Capt./Cmdt. Mauser in Police Academy 2 and Police Academy 3. Metrano's first film role was as a truck driver in the 1961 Cold War thriller Rocket Attack U.S.A.. Among Metrano's TV guest appearances was a 1968 episode of Ironside. However, he is better known for his frequent appearances on talk and variety shows in the early 1970s, especially The Tonight Show, as a "magician" performing absurd tricks, such as making his fingers "jump" from one hand to another, while constantly humming an inane theme song – "Fine and Dandy", an early 1930s composition by Kay Swift. In December 2007, Metrano filed a lawsuit against Family Guy, asserting copyright infringement, and asking for damages in excess of two million dollars. Due to a fall at home in 1989, Metrano seriously injured his spinal cord and is disabled. Currently, he tours with his one-man show, "Jews Don't Belong On Ladders...An Accidental Comedy", which has raised more than $75,000 for Project Support for Spinal Cord Injury, to help buy crutches, wheelchairs, and supplies for handicapped people. Description above from the Wikipedia article Art Metrano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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