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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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Kristel Leesmend

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Kristel Leesmend (born 30 August 1968 in Tallinn) is an Estonian actress. From 1987 until 1988, Leesmend worked at the Vanalinnastuudio in Tallinn as a costume designer and as a freelance actress. In 1992 she graduated from Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre's Drama School and has been a freelance actress since. In 2002, she worked as a supervisor at the Tallinn University of Technology's student theatre, T-Theater. From 2003 until 2006, she was the director of casting for the Estonian Casting Agency (Allfilm). Besides theatrical roles she has also played in several films. Leesmend was in a relationship with actor Ivo Uukkivi, the pair have a daughter, born in 1995, with whom she has a very close relationship.
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William Muñoz

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William Arturo Muñoz González is a Mexican luchador (Spanish for professional wrestler), known both nationally and internationally under the ring name Rush. He is currently under contract with the U.S. based All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is also known for his work with Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) as well as the U.S. based Ring of Honor (ROH). Muñoz's father Arturo Muñoz is also a professional wrestler, working for CMLL under the ring name La Bestia del Ring. William's younger brothers also work for the promotion as masked wrestlers, ring names Místico and Dragon Lee. While most luchadors portray clear cut good guys or bad guys in the ring, Rush portrays a character that straddles that divide, his in-ring actions is often chaotic or brawling, with tendencies to cheat but is still popular with the fans.
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Suzanne Sumner Ferry

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Suzanne Sumner Ferry is an American actress/producer/author from Los Angeles, California. She started acting after being inspired by watching her actor son Carson Ferry's acting workshops, but it had always been a strong desire of hers, evident in numerous high school theatrical productions she was involved with in her earlier years. She is also author of two books: "Corinna the Christmas Elf" (2006; Tate Publishing Enterprises) and "The Day the Stars Stood Still: A Memoir about Logan Fleming, the Former Top Wax Artist at Movieland Wax Museum" (2009; BearManor Media). Suzanne Sumner Ferry is also the second cousin of late actress/singer/starlet Kathryn Grayson from Winston-Salem, NC. She is writing a biography about Kathryn Grayson. Her two children, Carson Ferry and McKenna Ferry, also act. Her niece Kara Suzanne Boger and nephew Evan Fisher Boger also are actors. Suzanne lives with her husband Mike Ferry and children in Southern California. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Suzanne Sumner Ferry
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Ivan Cardoso

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Ivan do Espírito Cardoso Filho (Born in Rio de Janeiro, October 1st, 1952) is a Brazilian photographer and filmmaker. Cardoso's early career is mainly associated with experimental short films such as 1971's "Nosferatu no Brasil' (Nosfaratu in Brazil), starring poet and songrwriter Torquato Neto, of whom Cardoso was a good friend. Though his work as an experimental filmmaker continued to develop in short films through a career that spans for over four decades, his most famous and recognizable feature-length movies are the ones that mix horror and comedy elements, described by Cardoso as "terrir" ("terror" + "rir", which is a word for "laugh" in Brazilian Portuguese). "As Sete Vampiras" (The Seven Vampire Ladies), "O Segredo da Múmia" (The Secret of the Mummy) and "Um Lobisomem na Amazônia" (A Werewolf in the Amazon Rainforest) are prominent films among Cardoso's terrir works. Documentaries on fellow Brazilian filmmakers, such as Glauber Rocha and José Mojica Marins, and on plastic artists such as avan-garte icon Helio Oiticica also figure among his filmography. He mantains channels in websites such as YouTube and Vimeo, where lots of his short films, from the most well-known to the most underground ones, are avaliable for free.
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Āris Rozentāls

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Āris Rozentāls (born on April 6, 1938 in Liepāja - January 3, 2019) was a Latvian actor. Studied at Liepāja 6th elementary school and Liepāja 1st secondary school . In 1960, he graduated from the Theater Faculty of the Latvian State Conservatory, majoring in acting. In 1981, he graduated from the Art History Department of the State Academy of Arts . As an actor, he worked in the Daugavpils Musical Drama Theater and the Liepāja Drama Theater . Since 1965, he was an actor in the Daile Theater
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Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Neil deGrasse Tyson (born October 5, 1958) is an American astrophysicist and science communicator. He is currently the Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium at the Rose Center for Earth and Space, and a research associate in the department of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History. Since 2006 he has hosted the educational science television show NOVA scienceNOW on PBS, and has been a frequent guest on The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, and Jeopardy!. It was announced on August 5, 2011, that Tyson will be hosting a new sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos: A Personal Voyage television series. Description above from the Wikipedia article Neil deGrasse Tyson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Ray Buktenica

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Ray Buktenica /bʌkˈtɛniːˈkɑː/ (born August 6, 1943) is an American film and television character actor. He has played numerous roles, primarily on television since 1972. He is best known for playing the character Benny Goodwin, the boyfriend and later fiancé of Brenda Morgenstern on the 1970s sitcom Rhoda, Dr. Solomon on House Calls and Jerry Berkson, Libby's boss on Life Goes On. He provided the voice of Hugo Strange in the character's sole appearance on Batman: The Animated Series. In 1996, he guest-starred on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Leo Nunk, a newspaper reporter. In 1997, he guest-starred on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in the episode "By Inferno's Light", as Deyos, the Vorta in command of the Dominion's Internment Camp 371.
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Naomi Ackie

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Naomi Sarah Ackie (born 2 November 1992) is an English actress. She made her television debut as Jen in the Doctor Who episode "Face the Raven" (2015). For her role as Bonnie on the television dark comedy-drama series The End of the F***ing World, she received the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2020. Ackie is well known for her role as Jannah in the film Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). In 2021, she had a main role on the third season of Master of None. She also portrayed American singer Whitney Houston in the biopic I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022), earning a Rising Star nomination at the British Academy Film Awards.
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Francisco Villarroel

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Francisco Villarroel was born in Venezuela on 1965. He is a lawyer, writer, actor, director and film producer. Author of the books: Dos otoños en Paris, Tango Bar, Viviana y sus tres amantes, Tengo que decir adiós, of the book of poems: Noctámbulos, and of the legal books: Tratado General de Derecho Marítimo, Derecho Internacional del Mar, Temas de Derecho Marítimo and Derecho Internacional Público. He is a Doctor and Emeritus Professor at the Universidad Marítima del Caribe. For more than thirty (30) years he dedicated himself to the practice of law and university education publishing books on maritime law and international law. He was President of the Venezuelan Maritime Law Association and Titular Member of the International Maritime Committee. In 2007, he published his first novel that was made into a film Two Autumns in Paris in 2019, which was followed by his second novel Tango Bar, published in 2018. In 2020, he directed his first film Webidemic, whose original script he also wrote. As an actor and a film producer, he is well known for several movies, winning awards in Kosice Film Festival, New York Cinematography Awards, Canadian Cinematography Awards, American Independent International Film Festival, Vegas Movie Awards, Actors Awards Los Angeles, Best Actor Award New York, World Premier Film Festival. Currently, Francisco Villarroel is the Director of the Caracas Ibero-American Film Festival and President of MOB Producciones.
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