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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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Tanie Kitabayashi
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Tanie Kitabayashi (北林谷栄, Kitabayashi Tanie, May 21, 1911 – April 27, 2010) was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Born Reiko Ando in Tokyo, she began as a stage actress. Early in her career, she became well known for portraying older women. Kitabayashi was a founding member of the famed Mingei Theatre, founded in 1950. In 1960, she won best actress awards at the 10th Blue Ribbon Awards and at the Mainichi Film Awards for Kiku to Isamu. She also won the Japan Academy Prize for best actress in Rainbow Kids (1991), a film that also earned her honors from the Mainichi Film Awards and from Kinema Junpo. She died on April 27, 2010, of pneumonia at a Tokyo hospital. She was 98.
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Trevor James
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Trevor is an actor of stage and screen. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Trevor grew up surrounded by the entertainment industry. After earning his BFA in Musical Theatre from Texas State University in 2018, Trevor spent the next few years in New York City where he broke into the theatre and television scene. Notable on stage roles have been Tony in the International Production of West Side Story in Tokyo, Japan, Frankie Valli in Jersey Boys, and the world premiere pre-Broadway production of The Karate Kid The Musical. Notable on screen credits include Prodigal Son on FOX, WeCrashed on AppleTV+, and the recently completed feature film, Et Tu.
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Phil Pickett
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Philip Stuart Pickett (born 19 November 1946) is an English songwriter, musician, vocal arranger, producer and artist manager.
He is principally known as a songwriter and musician and for co-writing and recording "Karma Chameleon", one of the biggest hits of the 1980s era with Boy George and Culture Club during his tenure as keyboard player and backing vocalist for the group on every live performance throughout the world during the 1980s. Prior to this, Pickett co-founded hit-making pop band Sailor in 1973 which achieved considerable chart-topping success in the mid-1970s glam rock period and with whom he still regularly performs to the present day. Pickett's songs have also been recorded by many other artists including Labi Siffre, Sheena Easton, Georgie Fame, Joe Cocker, Brian Kennedy and Malcolm McLaren, used in countless TV commercials and included in the soundtrack of Hollywood films Electric Dreams, Top Secret!, The Lost Boys and his West End Musical Theatre debut, Casper The Musical.
Pickett was born on 19 November 1946 in Münster, Germany (B.A.O.R.), the only child of father Philip George Pickett, an RAF pilot officer killed in a flying accident in Rhodesia in 1950 and mother Eileen Elizabeth Pickett who died in Spain in 1993.
Upon leaving school at Sutton Coldfield near Birmingham, England, in 1964, Phil took the advice of a family mentor, Philip Sutton, a director of Garfield Weston's Associated British Foods, by choosing to take an apprenticeship in the bakery industry, but by this time was also immersing himself in a growing passion and talent for musical composition. An interest in American music, particularly R&B, led him to form his first band, "The Blues Unit" with some school and college friends. After completing his apprenticeship on his 21st birthday, whilst taking a 12-month sabbatical travelling across the US, Pickett enjoyed a brief but life-changing chance encounter with legendary jazz musician Duke Ellington in a North Beach supper club in San Francisco, who whilst raising a glass to the young man, strongly advised him to "follow his heart" and return to England to pursue a music career instead.
Upon hearing an early arrangement of an obscure Peter, Paul and Mary album track, the then relatively unknown "Leaving on a Jet Plane" that Pickett had curated and was now performing with his folk singing partner Paddy Maguire at "Mother's" in Erdington 1968, Warner Bros executives Ian Ralfini and Martin Wyatt arriving from London to audition the duo and realising the track was already published by Warners, released it a few weeks later and the song went straight to No. 1 in the UK chart staying there for several weeks. ...
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Lee Kyoung-mi
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Lee Kyoung-mi (Korean: 이경미 born December 1973) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. She was born in Seoul, and graduated with a Russian degree from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. After working at a company for three years, she entered the School of Film, TV & Multimedia of the Korea National University of Arts, graduating with a major in Filmmaking in 2004. Her short film Feel Good Story, about an employee given the task of figuring out how her company can evade paying taxes, garnered several awards in the film festival circuit in 2004. Lee made her feature directorial debut with Crush and Blush (2008), a black comedy about an obsessive teacher and an outcast student who bond over their shared misanthropy; a critic called it "one of those rare films from an up-and-coming auteur that shows both guts and playfulness." It was the first film to be produced by Park Chan-wook; Lee had previously worked as a scripter/assistant director on Park's 2005 film Sympathy for Lady Vengeance. Crush and Blush premiered at the 13th Busan International Film Festival, and was released in theaters on October 16, 2008. Lee won Best New Director and Best Screenplay at the Blue Dragon Film Awards in 2008.
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Nola Klop
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Nola Klop is a native-bilingual (Dutch, British and American) voice actor, singer, voice-over, songwriter and YouTuber of Western European (Dutch) and Southeast Asian (Indonesian) origin, born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Growing up in a creative and musical family with a never-ending love for sound, language and storytelling, Nola has always been drawn to (musical) theater, animation, games and music.
A passionate storyteller, whether by voice, music or sound.
With 10+ years of professional experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Music & Sound Design (HKU Music and Technology), Nola works fast and efficient from a fully-equipped broadcast quality home studio and external studios of the client’s choice.
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Bryce Gheisar
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Bryce Gheisar is an American actor, best known for his leading roles as young Ethan in A Dog's Purpose and Julian in Wonder. Gheisar currently portrays Elliot Combs in The Astronauts.
Bryce Gheisar was born on December 30, 2004, in Plano, Texas, into a family of three, made up of his parents, Todd and Nicole Gheisar, and his older brother, Blake Gheisar. Bryce was a rising star in competitive gymnastics before he first discovered his love for acting. He currently resides in Plano, Texas, but has filmed around North America.
Gheisar started his acting career aged eight. He landed his first role in 2015, in the short film The Bus Stop as Elijah Gutnick. After he was enrolled in Cathryn Sullivan's school for Acting, he made his first theatrical appearance playing the leading role of young Ethan, in the acclaimed 2017 film, A Dog's Purpose. That same year, he gained that much more widespread recognition when portraying one of the lead roles, Julian, in the Oscar-nominated film, Wonder, working alongside Jacob Tremblay, Millie Davis and Julia Roberts. Bryce currently portrays Elliot Combes in the 2020 TV series, The Astronauts, on Nickelodeon.
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Gilles Groulx
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Gilles Groulx (August 30, 1931 in Montreal, Quebec – August 22, 1994) was a Canadian film director. He grew up in a working-class family with 14 children. After studying business in school, he went to work in an office but found the white-collar environment too stultifying. Deciding that the only way out was to become an intellectual, he attended the École du meuble de Montréal [fr] for a time and was a supporter of Borduas' automatiste movement. He also made 8 mm amateur films, which landed him a job as picture editor in the news department of the CBC. After three short personal films that confirmed his talent, he was hired by the National Film Board (NFB) at what was the beginning of the candid eye movement in 1956.
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Anderson Ballesteros
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When Anderson was two years old his father placed him with his paternal grandmother in Medellin, the beautiful "City of Eternal Spring" then controlled by the notorious drug cartel of Pablo Escobar. Anderson ran away from home at the age of 14, joined a gang and disappeared into the dark world of crime and violence by which runaways survived on the streets of Medellin - a world so dehumanizing that within two years he severed his gang ties to pursue an honest "career" as a street vendor.
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Na Jae-min
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Jaemin was born in Jeonju and then came straight to Seoul (where he grew up). He joined SM and became part of SM Rookies. He debuted in 2016 as a member of NCT DREAM. His nickname is Nana. In February 2017 it was announced that Jaemin is taking a break from promotions due to health issues. He returned for “Go” promotions. Education: Cheongil Elementary School and School of Performing Arts Seoul. – Favourite subject in school: Physical Education, while the subject he hates the most is Sociology.
– Favourite Food(s): Ramen, Potato Pizza, Fast Food, Jelly, Chocolate, Peaches, Chocolate Milk, Green Tea, Honey Tteokbokki, Fried Chicken
– Favourite color is White.
– Favourite number is 3.
– Favourite season is autumn.
– Favourite pet is the dog.
– Favourite genre of movies is horror.
– Favourite fruit is the peach.
– Favourite drink is coffee
– Favourite artists are: Lee Young Dae, EXO’s Kai, Tight Eyez
– Jaemin is called the “Fansign Boyfriend” because he’s really sweet to his fans during fansigns/meetings.
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