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Leroy Gomez
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Leroy Gómez is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with 1970s disco and latin music act Santa Esmeralda.
Leroy Gómez was born July 8, 1950 in Wareham, Massachusetts, of Cape Verdean descent.
After learning how to sing and play the saxophone, Gómez started his own band at 14, and later joined Tavares, a local group of brothers who shared his Cape Verdean heritage, and with whom he would go on to tour in North America and Europe.
In Paris, Elton John invited him to play the sax on Social Disease, a song on his 1973 classic album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Amidst this success, Gómez decided to leave his band "Tavares" and remain in Europe, getting work as a session player in Paris.
In Paris he met Nicolas Skorsky and Jean Manuel de Scarano, songwriters who had launched their own label with the aim of producing artists who would record their compositions. Santa Esmeralda was born of their collaboration, and the album Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, with Gómez on lead vocals, debuted on the independent French label, Fauves Puma. A sudden huge success in Europe, the record was picked up for worldwide distribution by Casablanca Records of Los Angeles, the preeminent label of the Disco era.
Essentially a studio act, Gómez was eager to perform, and a touring group was put together including a troupe of dancers, one of whom, by the name of Tequila, would appear on several album and single cover photos and ultimately become his wife.
Leroy Gómez left "Santa Esmeralda" in early 1978 to go as a solo artist and so recorded 2 solo albums: Gypsy Woman (Casablanca Records, 1978) and I Got It Bad (Casablanca, 1979).
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Bayoumi Fouad
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Egyptian actor, Bayoumi Fouad was born in Cairo on June 16, 1965. He was part of the first class at the Center for Creative Arts and graduated from the Directing Department. Fouad got his start playing supporting roles in films including: “Ihki ya Scheherazade” (Sherazade, Tell Me a Story; 2009), “678” (2010) and “Asmaa” (2011). He also appeared in several television series such as: “Abwab El Khouf” (Gates of Fear; 2011), “Raqm Maghoul” (Unknown Number; 2012), and “Ism Mua’at” (Temporary Name; 2013). Fouad gained fame when he appeared the television series “El Kebir Awi,” which ran for four seasons (2010-2014). He is also well-known for his role in the series “Mawjet Hara” (Heatwave; 2013).
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Isabelle Mann
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Isabelle Mann is a passionate and versatile actress. She was born a teachers' daughter in Göttingen, Germany, to Friedlinde (Helweg) and Karlotto Mann. She spent her early years in Wiesbaden, Germany, and was later raised bilingually in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
She studied acting at ‘Reduta Acting and Drama School’ in Berlin, and graduated in 2002.
Her post-graduation career began on stage in Berlin and Bremen, and she has always retained her association with the theatre.
She had her film debut as the lead actress in the horror movie ‘Der Kali Prozess’, in which she worked with award-winning film-maker Andreas Marschall.
Isabelle Mann moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, in 2006 where she worked in several theatre productions at the Jewish Arab Theatre and the Susan Dellal Theatre. She worked with Robert Castle at the International Theatre New York from 2009 until 2011, and again in 2024.
She was nominated for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ at the 2015 Maverick Movie Awards, USA, for the multi-award-winning motion picture ‘37’, in which she worked with the talented director Chris Brügge.
She has starred in the international feature film ‘Hello Au Revoir’, directed by Jason Croot, and in the ARD prime time series ‘Praxis mit Meerblick’, directed by Joseph Orr.
In 2021, Isabelle Mann was cast for Germany's most successful long-running series ‘Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten’.
The critically acclaimed arthouse film ‘The Food on the Table’, directed by Ismene Daskarolis and featuring Isabelle Mann in the lead role, was screened in 2024 at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival, popularly known as the ‘Berlinale’.
Isabelle Mann has studied film acting and American acting techniques with some of the most renowned acting coaches of our time, Susan Batson and Robert Castle. She continues to broaden her skill set by regularly working with both of them.
Isabelle Mann currently lives in Berlin.
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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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Daniyar Alshinov
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Daniyar Alshinov (born 23 November 1987; Akmolinsk) is a Kazakh actor and producer.
He was born in Akmola region. Since childhood, he was a very developed and versatile child. At school, he showed promise of an outstanding mathematician, up to high school he was a member of the school's national team in mathematics. In the 10th grade, there was a creative explosion, the future actor began to write poetry nonstop, scratching out notebooks, school diaries. He regularly attended the meetings of poets of Astana, once even went to the Bard festival outside the city. At the same time, Daniyar tried himself in the school KVN. In the 11th grade, he was already one of the main players of the school team.
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Paul Wellstone
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Paul David Wellstone (July 21, 1944 – October 25, 2002) was an American academic, author, and politician who represented Minnesota in the United States Senate from 1991 until he was killed in a plane crash near Eveleth, Minnesota, in 2002. A member of the Democratic Party (DFL), Wellstone was a leader of the populist and progressive wings of the party.
Born in Washington, D.C., Wellstone grew up in Northern Virginia. He went on to graduate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor's of Arts and a doctorate in political science. In 1969, Wellstone was hired as a professor at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he taught until his election to the Senate in 1990. In addition, he also worked as a local activist and community organizer in rural Rice County. In 1982, he made his first bid for political office in that year's Minnesota State Auditor race. His campaign was unsuccessful, losing to Republican incumbent Arne Carlson.
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Adolf Hitler
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Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated NSDAP), commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and served as head of state as Führer und Reichskanzler from 1934 to 1945. Hitler is most remembered for his central leadership role in the rise of fascism in Europe, World War II and the Holocaust. A decorated veteran of World War I, Hitler joined the precursor of the Nazi Party (DAP) in 1919, and became leader of NSDAP in 1921. He attempted a coup d'état known as the Beer Hall Putsch, which occurred at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich on 8–9 November 1923. Hitler was imprisoned for one year due to the failed coup, and wrote his memoir, Mein Kampf (in English "My Struggle"), while imprisoned. After his release on 20 December 1924, he gained support by promoting Pan-Germanism, antisemitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory and propaganda. He was appointed chancellor on 30 January 1933, and transformed the Weimar Republic into the Third Reich, a single-party dictatorship based on the totalitarian and autocratic ideology of Nazism. Nazi forces engaged in numerous violent acts during the war, including the systematic murder of as many as 17 million civilians, including an estimated six million Jews targeted in the Holocaust and between 500,000 and 1,500,000 Roma, added to the Poles, Soviet civilians, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other political and religious opponents. In the final days of the war, during the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Hitler married his long-time mistress Eva Braun. To avoid capture by Soviet forces, the two committed suicide less than two days later on 30 April 1945 and their corpses were burned.
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Brian Eno
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Brian Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, singer, and visual artist, known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.
Eno was a student of Roy Ascott on his Groundcourse at Ipswich Civic College. Then he studied at Colchester Institute art school in Essex, England, taking inspiration from minimalist painting. He joined the band Roxy Music as synthesiser player in the early 1970s. Roxy Music's success in the glam rock scene came quickly, but Eno soon tired of touring and of conflicts with lead singer Bryan Ferry. Eno's solo music has explored more experimental musical styles and ambient music. It has also been extremely influential, pioneering ambient and generative music, innovating production techniques, and emphasising "theory over practice".
Eno pursues multimedia ventures in parallel to his music career, including art installations, a newspaper column in The Observer, a regular column on society and innovation in Prospect magazine, and "Oblique Strategies" (written with Peter Schmidt), a deck of cards in which cryptic remarks or random insights are intended to resolve dilemmas.
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Tsutomu Yamazaki
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Tsutomu Yamazaki (山崎 努 Yamazaki Tsutomu) (born December 2, 1936 in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actor.
He has been nominated for seven Japanese Academy Awards, winning Best Actor awards for the Juzo Itami comedies The Funeral and A Taxing Woman, and the Best Supporting Actor awards for Go and Departures. He also won the Blue Ribbon Award for Best Actor in 1984 for The Funeral and Farewell to the Ark.
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Pierre Coffin
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Pierre Coffin, born in 1967, is a French animator and director. He was trained at the Gobelins in Paris and started to work at Amblimation, the 2D London based facility, where he worked on the Steven Spielberg-executive-produced We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story. He then started as a freelance animator in the French CGI studio Ex Machina where he worked as animator, animation supervisor, and eventually director. Afterwards, he started to collaborate with Passion Pictures Paris and Mac Guff where in 2010 he completed, with Chris Renaud, the feature CGI animated movie Despicable Me for Universal. He also provided voices for a few of the minor characters. Peter Coffin has created animations named Pings ( animations of penguins being hurt or killed).
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