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Bradley Whitford

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Bradley Whitford (born October 10, 1959) is an American film and television actor. He is best known for his roles as Deputy White House Chief of Staff Josh Lyman on the NBC television drama The West Wing, as Danny Tripp on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, as Dan Stark in the Fox police buddy-comedy The Good Guys, as Red John in the CBS series The Mentalist, and as antagonist Eric Gordon in the film Billy Madison. Whitford has been nominated for three consecutive Emmy Awards from 2001-2003 for "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" for his role on The West Wing, winning the award in 2001. This role has also garnered him three consecutive Golden Globe Award nominations for "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role". Description above from the Wikipedia article Bradley Whitford, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Vanda Osiris

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Da Wikipedia, l'enciclopedia libera. Wanda Osiris, nome d'arte di Anna Menzio (Roma, 3 giugno1905 – Milano, 11 novembre1994), è stata un'attrice, cantante e soubretteitaliana del teatro di rivista nel periodo anni trenta - anni cinquanta. Figlia di un palafreniere del Re, sin da piccola aveva un evidente talento nel canto e nella musica. Lasciata la famiglia, e gli studi di violino per seguire la passione teatrale, arrivò a Milano dove debuttò nel 1923 al cinema Eden. È ricordata per la sua religiosità cristiana cattolica, per la sua avversione verso il colore viola e gli uccelli, sia vivi sia finti, per la sua generosità, così nella vita come sul palcoscenico, per l'amore verso il suo pubblico. I suoi spettacoli sfarzosi erano caratterizzati da una continua ricerca del bello e del coinvolgimento dei più importanti talenti dello spettacolo. Amava discendere scale hollywoodiane e di riproduzioni famose come Trinità dei Monti, attorniata da giovani ballerini che sceglieva lei stessa. Per lei vennero coniati gli appellativi di Wandissima e di Divina. Le interpretazioni canore molto personali, con quel birignao a vocali estese, le apparizioni sempre più sorprendenti, il trucco tipicamente ocra, i capelli ossigenati, le piume, i tacchi, le paillettes, i fiumi di profumo Arpège, le rose, i ricchi costumi, il lusso soave la consegnarono alla leggenda presentandosi come un sogno di felicità, di ricchezza, di spensieratezza, in un'Italia stravolta dalle cause e dagli effetti della seconda Guerra Mondiale. È stata la prima Diva dello spettacolo leggero italiano. Involontariamente è stata la prima icona gay per un mondo che non poteva rappresentarsi socialmente se non tramite queste manifestazioni composte da un pubblico molto eterogeneo. Era un pubblico genuino e attivo che partecipava dalla platea con battute e considerazioni immediate su quanto avveniva sul palcoscenico. Durante il fascismo, in ottemperanza alle direttive emanate da Achille Starace per conto del governo, le fu imposto di italianizzare il nome d'arte, che divenne Vanda Osiri.
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Lynda Bellingham

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Lynda Bellingham played many roles during her five-decade professional career, but became synonymous with one. "Being a mum making gravy was not quite how I had seen my career advancing," she said once. But between 1983 and 1999 that's what she did in 42 "episodes" of an award-winning TV ad. Since the early 1980s, her name was rarely mentioned in print without it being prefaced with "Oxo mum". During her career, though, she starred on TV as the vet's wife Helen Herriot in All Creatures Great and Small in the 80s and as one of two divorcees trying to forge a relationship in the 90s sitcom Second Thoughts, opposite James Bolam. On stage she was best known for playing the lead in a touring production of Calendar Girls between 2008 and 2012. She was also, for four years between 2007 and 2011, a regular member of the team on Loose Women, the daytime TV chat show. She had few regrets about how her career turned out, summarising its trajectory thus on her website: "Arrived in London at the Central School [for Speech and Drama] in 1966 and never looked back. I had a ball!" Bellingham, though, knew that gravy, like Lady Macbeth's damned spot, left an indelible mark. "In many ways I was very proud of what we did, but there is no doubt that my credibility as an actress was knocked," she reflected. "Certain people in the industry would never employ me as a serious actress after it. On the other hand, it gave me the financial security to go off and work in the theatre for very little money." Her performances as Mrs Oxo were reportedly responsible for a 10% increase in stock cube sales.
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Song Joong-ki

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Song Joong-ki (Hangul: 송중기; born September 19, 1985) is a South Korean actor. He rose to fame in the historical drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal (2010) and the variety show Running Man as one of the original cast members when it premiered in 2010. Song played his first TV leading role in the melodrama The Innocent Man (2012). He has also starred in feature films, notably as the title character in the box office hit A Werewolf Boy (2012). After completing his mandatory military service, Song took on the lead role in the pan-Asia hit drama Descendants of the Sun (2016), which drew a peak audience share of 38.8% in South Korea and established him as a top Hallyu star. He placed 7th in Forbes Korea Power Celebrity list in 2013, and ranked 2nd in 2017.
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Dana Snyder

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Dana Snyder (born November 14, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, voice artist, and comedian, best known for playing Master Shake on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force show, and the film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters, both part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim franchise. Snyder can also be recognized as the voice of Gazpacho on the Cartoon Network series, Chowder, and the voice of The Alchemist on the Adult Swim series, The Venture Bros. He also voices Todd on G4's Code Monkeys. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dana Snyder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Carlos Alberto Riccelli

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Carlos Alberto Riccelli (São Paulo, July 3, 1946) is a Brazilian actor and director. In 1990 he moved to the United States, returning to Brazil only to work in cinema and short television projects. On TV, he played some important characters in television drama, such as the Indian Aritana in the soap opera Aritana (1978) on the now extinct TV Tupi, Rudy in Sétimo Sentido (1982) and the fisherman Nô in the miniseries Riacho Doce (1990). His most famous work was the former model and prostitute César Ribeiro in Vale Tudo (1988).
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Georges Cravenne

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Georges Cravenne (24 January 1914 – 10 January 2009), real name Joseph-Raoul Cohen, was a French film producer, publicity agent and founder of the César Award. He received an Honorary César in 2000. He married French actress Françoise Arnoul in 1956. They divorced in 1964. On 18 October 1973, his second wife Danielle Cravenne was shot dead by a police sniper at Marignane airport in Marseille. Danielle, who was mentally unstable, had tried to hijack a Boeing 727 to protest against the release of the film The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob which was being promoted by Cravenne and which she considered "anti-Palestinian", especially in the midst of the Yom Kippur War. Source: Article "Georges Cravenne" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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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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Lena Nyman

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anna Lena Elisabet Nyman (23 May 1944 – 4 February 2011) was a Swedish film and stage actress. Having had her first film roles in 1955, Nyman had a role in Vilgot Sjöman's 491 (1964) and got her breakthrough in his I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967), where she, in pseudo-documentary fashion, played a character of the same name as herself, and its sequel I Am Curious (Blue) (1968). She later participated in many of the films and stage productions of Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson, such as Release the Prisoners to Spring (1975) and The Adventures of Picasso (1978). Nyman co-starred with Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata (1978). In 2004, Nyman received the royal medal Litteris et Artibus, and in 2006 she was the recipient of the Eugene O'Neill Award. Nyman died on 4 February 2011, aged 66, after a long battle with several illnesses including cancer, COPD and Guillain–Barré syndrome.
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Gregory Crafts

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A multi-hyphenate creative artist, Gregory Crafts resides in the Arts District of North Hollywood, California with his beloved wife, Jenn, and their two cats. Greg is a stage and screen actor with over a hundred credits to his name. He is a founding member of Theatre Unleashed, a non-profit theatre company based in NoHo, and is proud to serve as its Managing Director. He is also a published playwright, whose work can be found in the catalogs of Samuel French, Original Works Publishing and Steele Spring Stage Rights. Greg is also a card-carrying member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, the Dramatists Guild of America, a founding member of the Theatrical Producers League of Los Angeles, and a member of the Alliance of Los Angeles Playwrights.
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