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Simone Moro
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Simone Moro is an Italian mountaineer, born October 27, 1967 in Bergamo, Italy. He is the first and only mountaineer to achieve the first winter ascents of four peaks over 8,000 meters: Shisha Pangma in 2005, Makalu in 2009, Gasherbrum II in 2011, and Nanga Parbat in 2016. Moro is also a helicopter pilot experienced holder of many records. Encouraged by his father, a high-level mountaineer and motorcyclist, in his passion for the high mountains, he began at the age of 13, by climbing the Pizzo della Presolana and other massifs of the Bergamasque Alps while continuing his studies until the end of his university studies.
In 1992, he made his first expedition to Everest. A year later, Moro climbed Aconcagua, making the first winter ascent. In 1996 Moro climbed the west face of Fitz Roy (3,341 m in Patagonia) in 25 hours from the base to the top of the wall. The same year, he reached the southern summit of Shisha Pangma (8,008 m) without oxygen in 27 hours and then made a descent on skis from 7,100 meters. In 1997, he successfully climbed Lhotse. During the winter of 1997, during his attempt to climb the south face of Annapurna, his rope companions Anatoli Boukreev and Dimitri Sobolev disappeared in an avalanche. He returned to Everest in 1998; then succeeded in climbing four peaks: Peak Lenin (7,134 m), Peak Korjenevskoy (7,105 m), Peak Ismail Somoni (7,495 m), Peak Khan Tengri (7,010 m) with the Kazakh Denis Urubko; and succeeded with him the ascent of Everest in 2000 and the first winter of the Marble Wall in 2001.
In 2002, he climbed three summits: Mount Vinson, Cho Oyu and Everest; then also three summits (Broad Peak, Elbrouz and Kilimanjaro) in 2003. He opened a new route on Baruntse and attempted the ascent of Shisha Pangma and Annapurna in 2004. In 2005 he reached the summit of Batura Sar and Batokshi peak. He climbed the Broad Peak during the winters of 2006 and 2007. In 2005, he succeeded in the first winter Shisha Pangma with Piotr Morawski. In 2006, he completed the South-North crossing of Everest alone, descending from the summit in 5 hours. In 2008 he completed, with Hervé Barmasse, the first ascent of Beka Brakai Chnok (6,950 m in the Karakoram) in alpine style and in 43 hours.
In January 2009, Simone Moro succeeded without oxygen in the first winter ascent of Makalu in the company of Denis Urubko. In February 2011 Moro made the first winter ascent of Gasherbrum II with Denis Urubko and Cory Richards. In April 2013, Moro, accompanied by Ueli Steck and Jonathan Griffith, got involved in a fight with a group of Sherpas. This incident had an international impact. In February 2016 Moro completed the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat with Alex Txikon and Muhammad Ali Sadpara. In February 2018, Simone Moro, accompanied by Tamara Lunger, climbed Pic Pobeda in Siberia, the highest point of the Chersky Massif, at 7439 meters above sea level.
In January 2020, Moro accompanied by Lunger attempted to cross Gasherbrum II and I in winter. The expedition runs out before the camp. Moro falls into a fortunately harmless crevasse.
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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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Milena Dravić
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Milena Dravić (1940–2018) was a Serbian actress. Born in Belgrade, Dravić was involved with the performing arts from the age of four: first with dance and later classical ballet. In 1959, while in high school, director František Čap saw her on the cover of a youth magazine in a ballet dancers group photo and decided on the spot to approach her about being in his film Vrata ostaju otvorena. After appearing in few more films she decided to pursue acting full-time and successfully enrolled in Belgrade's Dramatic Arts Academy. Her big break came in 1962 when she won the Golden Arena for Best Actress award (which was the Yugoslav equivalent of Academy Award) for her role in Branko Bauer's film Prekobrojna. This was the moment that sent her on the way to becoming Yugoslavia's first and arguably the biggest female movie star. Milena Dravić continued with long and prolific career during which she showed great talent and versatility. She was equally memorable and believable as the tragic heroine in state-sponsored World War II epics, eccentric protagonist of experimental arthouse films like WR: Mysteries of the Organism and romantic comedies. She especially excelled in the latter during 1970s and 1980s. She won the Cannes Best Supporting Actress Award in 1980 for Special Treatment. For her roles and contributions to domestic cinematography, she received the prestigious "Pavle Vujisić" award in August 1994.
Milena Dravić was married three times. Her third husband was the prominent Serbian actor Dragan Nikolić, with whom she had co-hosted the popular 1970s television program Obraz uz obraz. She died on 14 October 2018, after a long battle with illness.
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Jill Esmond
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Jill Esmond (26 January 1908 – 28 July 1990) was an English actress and first wife of Sir Laurence Olivier.
In 1928 Esmond (billed as Jill Esmond Moore) appeared in the production of Bird in the Hand, where she met fellow cast member Laurence Olivier for the first time. Three weeks later, he proposed to her. In his autobiography Olivier later wrote that he was smitten with Esmond, and that her cool indifference to him did nothing but further his ardour. When Bird in the Hand was being staged on Broadway, Esmond was chosen to join the American production – but Olivier was not.
Determined to be near Esmond, Olivier travelled to New York City where he found work as an actor. Esmond won rave reviews for her performance. Olivier continued to follow Esmond, and after proposing to her several times, she agreed and the couple were married on 25 July 1930 at All Saints', Margaret Street; within weeks, the couple regretted their marriage. They had one son, Tarquin Olivier (born 21 August 1936).
Returning to the United Kingdom, Esmond made her film debut with a starring role in an early Alfred Hitchcock film The Skin Game (1931), and over the next few years appeared in several British and (pre-Code) Hollywood films, including Thirteen Women (1932). She also appeared in two Broadway productions with Olivier, Private Lives in 1931 with Noël Coward and Gertrude Lawrence and The Green Bay Tree in 1933.
Esmond's career continued to ascend while Olivier's own career languished, but after a couple of years, when his career began to show promise, she began to refuse roles. Esmond had been promised a role by David O. Selznick in A Bill of Divorcement (1932) but at only half-salary. Olivier had discovered that Katharine Hepburn had been offered a much greater salary, and convinced Esmond to turn down the role. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jill Esmond, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Shoshana Wilder
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Shoshana Wilder is a multilingual, classically trained actor, voiceover artist, and singer. Based in Los Angeles, Wilder is best known for her portrayals of Princess Lisette II in the youth series How to Become a Legend, Laya in Yiddish Theater production the Dybbuk (NYC), Diana Barry in Canadian Tour of Anne of Green Gables, Deena in CTV series Transplant, and as CBC’s in-house announcer (2015-19). Genuinely versatile, Shoshana Wilder works in English, French, Italian, and Yiddish and masters several dialects and accents. The Canadian character actress was raised in Montreal by a hardworking yet very present single mother, whose dedication, resourcefulness, and constant support for her three artistic children inspires Shoshana never to give up and reach for her dreams. As a child, she spends her time creating faux-radio commercials with her friends, and as a teen, regular parties are replaced by improv and comedy nights. Though her interest in the stage is omnipresent, her family’s financial situation is precarious, and cannot afford drama lessons. She, therefore, joins the children’s choir nearby, where she discovers her voice and deepens her love for music and harmony. But, unfortunately, she will have to wait until high school to join the Drama club. Shoshana sings and has a natural talent for the stage, but her shyness takes over, and she puts her passion aside for a few years. Finally, at age 19, encouraged by her French teacher, who sees Wilder’s potential, she auditions for the great acting schools of Quebec, and her acceptance to the Musical Theater program Lionel-Groulx will change everything. That’s where Wilder finally learns to polish, canalize and exploit her voice, dancing, and acting skills. After a few years in the Musical Theater program, she decided to focus on her acting training by joining the Drama specialization. Shoshana graduated in 2013 and has been working professionally ever since, diversifying between stage, TV, film, and voiceover work, sharing her time between LA, NYC, Toronto, and Montreal, her beloved hometown. Very handy and just as resourceful as her mother, Shoshana is also a passionate fixer-upper. Her passion for the environment drives her to counter obsolescence by giving antiques, fixtures, clothes, and furniture a second life. Shoshana also writes and directs and is currently working on her first feature film. For more, contact inquiries (at) EPECmedia (dot) com.
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James Dunn
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James Dunn worked on the stage, in vaudeville and as an extra in silent movies before he was signed by Fox in 1931. His first movie with Fox was 1931's Sob Sister (1931). While at Fox, he appeared with Shirley Temple in her first three features: Baby Take a Bow (1934), Stand Up and Cheer! (1934) and Bright Eyes (1934). Dunn's screen character was usually the boy next door or the nice guy. In 1935 musicals at the new 20th Century-Fox were out and Dunn would move to the "B" list, from which he would never return. In The Payoff (1935) he plays the nice guy newspaper columnist whose wife ruins his career. By the late 1930s he was drinking heavily and become unemployable. He would appear in small roles in films during the early 1940s, but those parts were few. In 1945 he was able to make a comeback and win the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), but his rejuvenated career would not continue. By 1951 he would again be unemployed and bankrupt. Television would later supply some work and he would be a regular on the series It's a Great Life (1954).
Dunn was born 2 November 1901, New York City, New York, USA, and he died 1 September 1967, Santa Monica, California, USA (following abdominal surgery)
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Mat Sentol
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Abdul Rasip bin Yahya (born 26 July 1933) or better known as Mat Sentol was one of the actors at Cathay-Keris Film Productions, Singapore around the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He is considered as the 'Father of Special Effect' in Malay cinema history through his directorial films, which were also acted by himself, with each at the beginning of the film's title beginning with the word Mat taken in conjunction with his name.
In addition to acting and directing, he is also talented in the field of animation, drama and film scriptwriter, make -up artist and the use of special effects for which he creates various filming techniques in his directorial films.
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Zouc
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Isabelle von Allmen (born 29 April 1950), better known by the stage name Zouc, is a Swiss actress.
Isabelle von Allmen was born in Saint-Imier and raised in Saignelégier. By the age of 14 she was performing every night in front of a crossing for her friends.
Following the suggestion of Coghuf (original name: Ernst Stocker, painter from Basel), she took lessons in classical singing and music theory in Neuchatel, Switzerland. She became part of a team of authors with whom she developed the play allégria and appeared on stage for the first time.
In 1969 she moved to Paris where she took courses at the theater of Tania Balachova for a few months and staged her first solo play at “La Vieille Grille” theatre. The painter Roger Montandon invited her to pose for him, which led to an intense collaboration between the two artists, lasting for many years. Between 1970 and 1980 Zouc performed her play several hundred times, at the Vieux Colombier, the Théatre de la Ville, Le Palace, Bobino and in many other theatres in France and abroad. Meanwhile, thanks to her increasing contacts, Zouc performed in Jeux de massacre by Eugène Ionesco, staged by Jorge Lavelli, as well as in The Birds by Aristophanes with music by Antoine Duhamel at the Opéra de Lyon. She starred in many movies, working with Michel Drach, William Klein, Serguei Bordrov and Jacques Dillon. In 1983 she played against Pierre Dux in Monsieur Abel.
In 1984 she staged her play Zouc à l'école des femmes in collaboration with Roger Montandon. In 1987 a new show, developed in collaboration with Tara Depré, was presented at Le Bataclan.
During an operation for cancer of the sternum at the Marie Lannelongue hospital in Plessis-Robinson (near Paris) in 1997, Zouc caught a severe hospital-acquired infection (multi-resistant staphylococcus aureus). After nine further operations, her life was saved at the Croix-Saint-Simon hospital in Paris, but she remains seriously handicapped, ending her career on stage far ahead of her time.
Source: Article "Zouc" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Robert Desmond
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Robert Desmond (16 December 1922 – 2002) was a British film and television actor of the 1950s and 1960s.
He started out in juvenile roles, making his film debut in 1948's The Guinea Pig opposite Richard Attenborough. He appeared in a number of early television films such Boys in Brown, recreating the role of Spud Parker in the theatrical film version of 1949, again with Attenborough. He would appear opposite Attenborough one more time in The Great Escape (1963), as Griffith the Tailor. Other films include The Cockleshell Heroes (1955), Indiscreet (1958), The Ugly Duckling (1959), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), The Bulldog Breed (1960) and The Best of Enemies (1961).
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Luisa Ranieri
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Luisa Ranieri was born on December 16, 1973, in Naples, Campania, Italy. She is an actress in theater, cinema, and television, in 2001 she made her debut on the big screen as the protagonist in the film The Prince and the pirate, she is known for eros (2004), Letters to Juliet (2010), and The Friends at the Margherita Cafe (2009). Between 2009 and 2010 she acted in the theater with L'oro di Napoli by Gianfelice Imparato and Armando Pugliese, the latter also the director of the show, a theatrical transposition of the stories by Giuseppe Marotta that became famous thanks to the homonymous film by Vittorio De Sica
In 2021, she became widely famous by playing Aunt Patrizia in "The Hand of God" and became such a female icon for it.
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