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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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Calypso Rose

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Calypso Rose or Linda McCartha Monica Sandy-Lewis (born April 27, 1940 in Bethel Village, Tobago) is a Trinidadian calypsonian. She started writing songs at the age of 13; over the years, she has composed more than 1000 songs and recorded more than 20 albums. Considered the "mother of calypso", Rose was the first female calypso star and her lyrics frequently address social issues like racism and sexism. Her influence over the calypso music genre forced the renaming of the Calypso King competition to the Calypso Monarch instead. In addition to writing songs about social issues, Rose is also an activist and was given the title of UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador for former child soldiers along with performing at numerous events for social change. She has received every award available to living artists in the Caribbean. She currently resides in Queens, New York, and regularly returns to Trinidad and Tobago in addition to touring. ... Source: Article "Calypso Rose" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Ciaran Drysder

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I am an actor, playwright, singer, director. Last year I wrote my first play "2044" which premiered at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016, with a very successful run. I'm currently writing play number 2; "27 Years" which will be based on the same concept as "2044". I have just completed my HND Acting and Performance, and I'm now looking to gain experience in many different mediums within the acting industry from working in short film, feature lengths, musicals, plays, commercials, Voice acting.
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Jason Mitchell

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Jason Mitchell is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Eazy-E in the 2015 biopic Straight Outta Compton. Mitchell had roles in the films Contraband and Broken City, both of which starred Mark Wahlberg. In 2015, Mitchell played Compton rapper Eazy-E in the biopic Straight Outta Compton, with his performance being met with general praise by critics. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jason Mitchell, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Bernice Hansen

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Berneice Edna Hansell (July 11, 1897 – April 16, 1981), known as Bernice Hansen, provided the voice for female and young characters in the mid to late 1930s for various cartoon studios, most notably Warner Bros., where she played Little Kitty in I Haven't Got a Hat (1935). Because of a lack of on-screen voice credits on cartoons throughout the 1930s, identifying many actors has been a challenge to historians, resulting in incorrect guesses, especially with many female voices portraying young animals that sound very similar. Hansell has, for example, been incorrectly identified as providing the voice of Sniffles.
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Mangasa Pandapotan Sitorus

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Born in Pematang Siantar. Education : HIS, SLA, ATNI. Real name: Mangasa Pandapotan Sitorus. Prior to the film, Masito was known as a boxer, then a tap dancer. Plunge into film as a supporting actor in the films "Surja" (1951), then "Kafedo" (1953), "Putri from Medan" (1954), "Disimpang Djalan" (1955), "Djuara 1960" (1956), "Tandjung Katung" (1957), "Virgin Child in the Host's Nest" (1962), "Between East and West" (1963), " ..... and Flowers Fall" (1970), "Only One Way" (1972) , "Last Tango in Jakarta" (1973), "A Thousand Memories" (1975), "Ali Topan Street Children" (1977), "Martini" (1978) and others. Has worked as a journalist at SKM Dunia Film. Masito has never had the chance to play a major role. In "Jakarta, Jakarta" (1977) he won Citra as the best supporting actor at the 1978 FFI in Ujung Pandang. As a freedom fighter, he received the Satya Badge, the Guerrilla Star.
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Ahmad Ahmadi

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He was started his career in the cinema industry at 1992 as a backstage cinematograph in the Judgement Day movie, whose director was Shahram Asadi. From 1995 he officially started to work in Iranian cinema photography with the movie Shade to Shade whose director was Ali Jakan, and recognized as the youngest Iranian cinema photographer in the mass media and specialized journals. Besides photography, he was working in the short and experimental cinema as a cameraman. He filmed his first short movie as a director of photography in Nader, son of the sword, whose director was Mohsen Amir yousefi and produced by community of Young Iranians’ cinema. Since 2006 he has actively started to work as a director of photography in the Islamic Republic of Iran’s cinema and Broadcasting. Currently, besides working in photography, he is actively engaged in producing long and short films. One of his recent movies as a producer is Roshanak, whose director is Hosein Ghanaaat.
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Tamara Toumanova

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From Wikipedia Tamara Toumanova (March 2, 1919 – May 29, 1996) was a prominent Russian American prima ballerina and actress. A child of exiles in Paris after the Russian Revolution of 1917, she made her debut at the age of 10 at the children's ballet of the Paris Opera. She became known internationally as one of the Baby Ballerinas of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, after being discovered by her fellow émigré, ballet master and choreographer George Balanchine. She was featured in numerous ballets in Europe. Balanchine also featured her in his productions at Ballet Theatre, New York, making her the star of his performances in the United States. While most of Toumanova's career was dedicated to ballet, she appeared as a ballet dancer in several films, beginning in 1944. She became a naturalized United States citizen in 1943 in Los Angeles, California. Toumanova appeared in six Hollywood films between 1944 and 1970, always playing dancers. She made her feature film debut in 1944, in Days of Glory, playing a Russian dancer being saved from the invading Germans in 1941 by Soviet partisan leader Gregory Peck (who also made his debut in that film). In 1953 she played Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova in "Tonight We Sing", and in 1954 she appeared in the biographical musical, "Deep in My Heart", as the French dancer Gaby Deslys. In 1956 she did a dance scene with Gene Kelly in his dance film, Invitation to the Dance. In 1966 she played the odious, unnamed lead ballerina in Alfred Hitchcock's political thriller Torn Curtain. In 1970 she played Russian ballerina "Madame Petrova" in Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. In 1944 she married Casey Robinson, whom she met as the producer and screenwriter of Days of Glory, her first film. The union was childless. The couple divorced on October 13, 1955. She died in Santa Monica, California, on May 29, 1996, aged 77, from undisclosed causes. Before her death, she gave her Preobrajenska costumes to the Vaganova Choreographic Museum in St Petersburg, Russia. She was buried next to her mother Eugenia in Hollywood. In his obituary, British choreographer John Gregory was said to describe Toumanova as a "remarkable artist – a great personality who never stopped acting. It is impossible to think of Russian ballet without her.
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Michael Caton

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Caton (born in Monto, Queensland, 1943) is an Australian television, film and stage actor, and television host, best known for playing Uncle Harry in the Australian television series, The Sullivans,, playing Darryl Kerrigan from 1997's low budget hit film The Castle and playing in the popular Packed to the Rafters. He is married to Helen Esakoff. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Caton, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Brian Vadim

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Brian Vadim (Vadimsky) Member of Dramatists Guild of America Inc. ​Filmmaker, Actor, Author, Musician. FILM (Current) "Roosters", "Ghosts of Somerville", "Cassie James" – In production Actor, Author, Director, Executive Producer (screenplay: 1st place Cannes Thriller/Suspense 2017 ) Co-Author with Richard Vadimsky TELEVISION ( 2018-2020) Homicide City Charlotte (season 1) - Det. Brandon, Murder Tapes - Tony Maresca Shattered 306 - Teacher On the Case w/ Paula Zahn - Detective, Victim Evil Lives Here (409 The Devils Disciple) - Officer , (Black Widow) Stephen, (Starnes) Bill Evil Talks (Chilling Confessions) - Mark Kelley Grave Secrets (He comes to my dreams) - 70's cop Primal Instincts Det. Scott Lott Ministry of Evil: (The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo) - Lumberjack #5 Dead of Winter 102 - Mortician Titleist Golf Commercial - Spectator Sustainable Life With Unlimited Transformations - Jack/Jerome Adams THEATER Mary Howling Queen of the Crazy Ones Author, Composer, Director, Executive Producer BOOKS Roosters (American Gothic story) Author The Tinkermans (children’s picture book) Author MUSIC RELEASES Indian Summer - Composer, Performer The Memoirs of Mr. Howling - Composer, Performer Mad Guy Sky - Composer, Performer Systur Carol’s Greatest Hits - Composer, Performer
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